Fairy Tale Junction

A Compendium of Fairy Tales I remember
...for my children

Pinocchio's Adventures In Wonderland

 

 

 

Pinocchio was written by Carlo Lorenzini
and
illustrated by Frederick Richardson.

The original story of Pinocchio is quite different from the one that became a popular movie.

There have been numerous translations from the Italian.

 

Contents

• How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
  
  
• Master Cherry Makes a Present of the Piece of Wood to His Friend Geppetto, Who Takes It to Make for Himself a Wonderful Puppet, That Shall Know How to Dance and to Fence and to Leap Like an Acrobat.
  
  
• Geppetto Having Returned Home, Begins at Once to Make a Puppet, to Which He Gives the Name of Pinocchio. The First Tricks Played by the Puppet.
  
  
• The Story of Pinocchio and of the Talking Cricket, from Which We See That Naughty Boys Cannot Endure to Be Corrected by Those Who Know More Than They Do.
  
  
• Pinocchio Is Hungry and Searches for an Egg to Make Himself an Omelet; but Just at the Most Interesting Moment the Omelet Flies Out of the Window.
  
  
• Pinocchio Falls Asleep with His Feet on the Brazier, and Wakes in the Morning to Find Them Burned Off.
  
  
• Geppetto Returns Home, and Gives Him the Breakfast That the Poor Man Had Brought for Himself
  
  

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