He waited two minutes, and nothing: five minutes, and nothing ten minutes, and nothing. Then he stopped to listen, so as to hear if there was any voice that complained. Italian text English version Author: Carlo Collodi Text simplified and. Told as a story of cosmic beginnings, this version of Pinocchio is about the formative energy and magic that reside in the wood that becomes the boy.
Written and illustrated by Alessandro Sanna Translated from Italian by Michael Reynolds A Brain Pickings Best Children’s Book of 2016. Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet), classic childrens. This title is also available on Bookshop, an organization that supports independent bookstores. him.”Īnd saying this, he seized with both hands that poor piece of wood and knocked it around without pity against the stone wall of the room. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (ENGLISH) Carlo Collodi The Adventures of. What if there may be someone hidden inside? If there is, so much the worse for him. This is an ordinary piece of wood for the fireplace, like all other pieces with which we boil a pot of beans. The richest of them begged for his living.' After choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes. Can it be that this piece of wood has learned to cry and scream like a baby I cannot believe it? I knew a whole family of Pinocchi once-Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mother, and Pinocchi the children-and they were all lucky. This time Master Cherry became dumb, with his scared eyes nearly popping out of his head, with his mouth opened wide,Īnd with his tongue hanging down on his chin, like a gorgon head on a fountain.Īs soon as he could speak he said, trembling and stammering from fright, “But where does that little voice come from that says “Oh? Oh! you have hurt me!” cried the little voice, as if in pain.
He took up the ax and again gave the piece of wood a hard blow. “I understand,” he said, laughing and scratching his wig: I imagined I heard that little voice. He opened the door in order to glance around his house and no one did. He looked under the bench, and no one he looked in a sideboard which was always closed, and no one he looked in the basket of chips and shavings, and no one
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