The Adventures of Pinocchio

<p>The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children written by Italian author Carlo Collodi. It is a story about the mischievous adventures of an animated wooden puppet named Pinocchio and his father a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is famous the world over and has been familiar in English for over a century. </p><p>From the moment Gappetto the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie he is turned into a donkey and is swallowed by a dogfish before he gains real happiness.His friends the Cricket and the Blue Fairy try to make see that his dream - to be a real boy - can never come true until he finally changes his ways.</p>