The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Kathleen Rizzi (Adapter), Bob Berry (Illustrator), Carlo Collodi

When Geppetto wishes for a son, he carves a wooden puppet, but he had not counted on finding wood that can come to life! His new son, Pinocchio, is very naughty. When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows! His adventures lead him to danger and require narrow escapes. But Pinocchio finally comes to value good advice and is granted the thing that he most wishes for!

Genres: Classics, Childrens

192 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2016

Reviews

[Samantha Osborne · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was ok I liked the cartoon better in the book he's more of a brat

[Ivy]

it was sad but, also kind of cool.

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a little much for me and probably many children but my son LOVED it!

Examples: Pinocchio kills the cricket with a hammer in the first chapter. He gets put in jail twice. He does get turned into a donkey, is sold to a circus, gets a lame leg so then is sold to a man that wants his skin to make a drum. He puts Pinocchio the donkey in a bag with a weight and drops him in the oven to drown 😳

All the things that happen to Pinocchio over the years is a lesson to teach little boys to go to school and to listen to their parents.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this to my two year olds … three times? The first was the first time I had read it and I was skipping parts and censoring it as I went because I was shocked it was for kids…. I read it normally the second and third times… but didn’t finish it the third time because they lost interest… it was mostly a read to get them to sleep kind of story, but I was not as impressed as I was with the other treasury collection book - beauty and the beast. I was just glad they can’t fully understand it all right now. But they asked for Pinocchio nightly.

[Tranylle · Rating 3 out of 5]

😳😳😳

This was the most disturbing children's book I've ever read. My kids were in shock most of the time. Pinocchio murders the cricket by like page 3, bites off people's hands, and is just downright terrible. My 7 year old said at one point it was too disturbing to keep reading. But we kept on. Both kids gave it 3 stars, and I agree. Some of the story was fine, but it's a little too gruesome for most kids I'd say.

[Stacy Renee (LazyDayLit) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this to my daughter but it was my first time reading the original story and wow was that pretty much nonsense. Some of it was surprising and I had to gloss over the violence. It reminded me of reading the original Wizard of Oz stories.
Pinocchio starts out quite silly and slowly learns his lessons and is rewarded for his change of heart.

[Talia Katz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly I would probably give it three and a half stars… I would have given it 4 stars if I hadn’t tried it as an audiobook first two years ago. I hated it when it was an audiobook… it was pretty good as a read in print format… not that similar to the Disney story though…

[Adrienne Dixon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was cute. You have to keep in mind that the original story was written over a century ago, so it is a lot different than the books you read nowadays.

[Molly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a bit shocked with this. I hadn't read the original. With reading the children's adaptation, I don't think I'll bother with the original.

The book is a lot darker than the Disney film that I seem to only remember parts of. This book also tends to swing back and forth like a pendulum, from dark to happy to dark again. It moves at a frenetic pace, and with this "mood swing" intricate to the plot, it made me somewhat dizzy.

All in all, I didn't like it. I wouldn't recommend it. I'd rather watch the Disney film and forget I read this.

[Daniel Brubeck · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had never read Pinocchio before but I now can understand how this book is a classic, one of the things that I liked about this book is how the writer creates a surreal world where weird or amazing things happen and all is taken in the reality as it is, which I think is a great idea for kids literature and at the same time he managed enjoy that same reality as an adult (like the fisherman or the snail parts).

[Beth Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It was more lighthearted than the Disney movie, even though some worse things happened to poor Pinocchio. The puppet Pinocchio is a bad puppet trying to become a little boy and learns a lot of lessons along the way.

[Antonio D.H. · Rating 2 out of 5]

A pretty boring adaptation of the original story. It seems that a lot of the details of the story are cut out, and the darker themes are removed as well. The fantasy is still there, but it just feels like something is missing form this classic. The illustrations are fine, but nothing to scoff at...

[Uvindex · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an odd book ! It was surprisingly delightful... like the whole storyline came from a dream, with some scattered moral lessons.

[Janice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kiersten enjoyed this book but I kind of lost interest after a while. It's really a very odd book.