Le aventure di Pinocchio, Level B

by Carlo Collodi

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Reviews

[Martina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though it is considered a book for children, "Le avventure di Pinocchio" isn't really the sweet fluffy book you'd give to a small child. For that, there's the Disney movie version, which wipes away much of the original novel's "cruelty".
In the real book Pinocchio faces loads of (dis)adventures: he works as a guard dog, he risks to be eaten by a green fisherman, becomes a donkey and gets eaten by a shark. At the end he becomes a real boy, as he has always wanted, but this to the price of becoming a serious boy who works in order to support his old and ill father.
It isn't really a fairy tale, even if it has fantastic places and talking beasts, and the end is all but what you would expect from a book for children. I, for one, have always found it pretty sad.