The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales by Carlo Collodi

Author:Carlo Collodi [Collodi, Carlo & Nipote, Collodi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

THE HEART OF PINOCCHIO by Collodi Nipote

New Adventures of the Celebrated Little Puppet

Adapted from the Italian by Virginia Watson

INTRODUCTION

Dear Boys and Girls—

Let us hope that none of you has been so unfortunate as to have missed the pleasure of watching sometime or other a puppet show. Probably Punch and Judy is the one you know best, but there are many others with jolly little fellows who dance in and out of all sorts of adventures. So you can imagine Pinocchio, the hero of this book, as one of those lively puppets. And, in case you have never read the earlier book about him, you will want to know something of what happened to him before you meet him in these pages.

One day a poor carpenter, called Master Cherry, began to cut up a piece of wood to make a table-leg of it when, to his utmost amazement, the piece of wood cried out, “Do not strike me so hard!” The frightened carpenter stopped for a moment, and when he began again and struck the wood a blow with his ax the voice cried out once more, “Oh, oh! you have hurt me so!” The carpenter was now so terrified that he was only too glad to turn the piece of wood over to a neighbor, Papa Geppetto, who cut it up into the shape of a boy puppet, painted it, and named it Pinocchio—which means “a piece of pinewood.” As soon as he had finished making him, Pinocchio grabbed the old man’s wig off his head and started in to play tricks. Papa Geppetto then taught the puppet to walk, and when naughty Pinocchio discovered he could use his legs, he ran away. Then began all kinds of adventures, and Pinocchio was sometimes naughty and selfish, and sometimes kind and considerate, but always funny and jolly.

In this new book Pinocchio’s heart has grown through love and consideration for others, so that he becomes a real boy and takes part in the war to help his beautiful country, Italy.

The Translator.

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