Pinocchio

Summary

The woodcarver Geppetto shapes a puppet who springs to life as Pinocchio, a naive, impulsive boy who lies, skips school, and falls for every swindler he meets on his long road to becoming a real child. Collodi mixes fairy tale wonder with genuinely dark turns, from the puppet's transformation into a donkey to his rescue of Geppetto from a giant sea creature. The story's blunt moral lessons and strange, vivid inventions have made it one of the most translated books ever written.