Pinocchio (Puffin Classics)

Author: Carlo Collodi

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  • : 24.99 AUD
  • : 9780141331645
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Puffin Classics
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  • : February 2011
  • : 178mm X 129mm X 21mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : July 2011
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Barcode 9780141331645
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Description

The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual piece of wood - and the finished puppet can talk and misbehave like the liveliest child. But Pinocchio is brave and inquisitive as well as naughty, and after some hair-raising adventures, he earns his heart's desire.


 


Heart-warming introduction by John Boyne, author of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Author description

Carlo Collodi (pen-name of Carlo Lorenzini) was born in Florence in 1826. He began his career as a journalist and worked as a civil servant before becoming a published author. In 1881 he wrote a short episode in the life of a wooden puppet for a newspaper, and it was an immediate success. The first English language version of the adventures of Pinocchio was published in 1892, two years after his death.