The Adventures of Pinocchio

✍ Scribed by Carlo Collodi; John Hooper; Anna Kraczyna; John Hooper; Anna Kraczyna; John Hooper; Anna Kraczyna

• Book ID: 110763286
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 601 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780525507666

✦ Synopsis

revelatory new edition of the most widely translated Italian book in the world—soon to be a Netflix animated feature film co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz, John Turturro, and Tilda Swinton
A Penguin Classic
Carved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and wants nothing more than to be a real boy. But while this beloved character has achieved literary immortality, he is ultimately misunderstood. He has a penchant for lying, to be sure, but it's when he avoids going to school that he repeatedly gets into trouble, making _The Adventures of Pinocchio _an unusually timely novel about the importance of education, in our increasingly authoritarian times, to prevent our strings being pulled.

This effervescent new translation captures the antic spirit that makes the mischievous, egotistical, and easily distracted...