“Lies, my dear boy, can easily be recognized. There are two kind of them: those with short legs, and those with long noses. Your kind have long noses.”

When a block of wood destined to become a table leg suddenly starts talking, Master Antonio gives the wood to his poor neighbour Gepetto, who carves out of it a puppet. Mischievous from the start, Pinocchio gets up to all sorts of misadventures – burying gold coins to make them grow, turning into a donkey in the Land of Toys, and finding himself swallowed by the Terrible Dogfish. At first rebellious, the little marionette learns from his mistakes and becomes a real boy of flesh and blood.

With translations available in over 300 languages, Carlo Collodi’s masterpiece of children’s literature has become a worldwide phenomenon. Originally serialized in a magazine for children, the first complete volume was published in 1883 to instant success.

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