Skip to Main Content (Press Enter) Toggle side nav
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Read An Excerpt
Read An Excerpt

The Adventures of Pinocchio

By Carlo Collodi
Introduction by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Translated by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Notes by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna

By Carlo Collodi
Introduction by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Translated by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Notes by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna

By Carlo Collodi
Introduction by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Translated by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Notes by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna

By Carlo Collodi
Introduction by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Translated by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna
Notes by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna

Best Seller
Paperback $15.00

Sep 14, 2021 | ISBN 9780143136095

Ebook $11.99

Sep 14, 2021 | ISBN 9780525507666

All Formats
+
    The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
    Paperback $15.00
    Sep 14, 2021 | ISBN 9780143136095

    Also available from:

    See All Formats (1) +

    Paperback
    –

    • Paperback $15.00

      Sep 14, 2021 | ISBN 9780143136095

      Also available from:

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook

      Sep 14, 2021 | ISBN 9780525507666

      Available from:

    Buy the Ebook:

    About The Adventures of Pinocchio

    A revelatory new edition of the most translated Italian book in the world–soon to be *two* major motion pictures: a Netflix animated version co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton, and a Disney Plus live-action version directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lorraine Bracco, and Keegan-Michael Key


    A Penguin Classic

    Carved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and immediately starts to misbehave. But while this beloved character has achieved literary immortality, the novel has been widely misunderstood. Pinocchio has a penchant for lying, to be sure, but it’s when he avoids going to school that he repeatedly gets into trouble. The Adventures of Pinocchio is thus not a cautionary tale about lying but an unusually timely fable for our increasingly authoritarian times–a story about the importance of education and of preventing others from pulling our strings.
     
    This effervescent new translation captures the antic spirit that makes the mischievous, egotistical, and easily distracted Pinocchio a late nineteenth-century prototype for the likes of Bart Simpson. Featuring copious annotations informed by the translators’ deep knowledge of Italy, it reveals the novel to be not only a subversively entertaining children’s book but also a sophisticated satire reflecting the author’s concern for the social inequality of his time and his belief that duty to others is at the core of our humanity.

    About The Adventures of Pinocchio

    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 Pinocchio a late nineteenth-century prototype for the likes of Bart Simpson. Featuring copious annotations informed by the translators’ deep knowledge of Italy, it reveals the novel to be not only a subversively entertaining children’s book but also a sophisticated satire reflecting the author’s concern for the social inequality of his time and his belief that duty to others is at the core of our humanity.

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Also by Carlo Collodi

    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    See all books by Carlo Collodi

    Also by Carlo Collodi

    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    Pinocchio
    See all books by Carlo Collodi

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Fairy Tales

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 14, 2021 | 224 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143136095

    Category: Fiction Classics | Fairy Tales

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 14, 2021 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780525507666

    Inspired by Your Browsing History

    Buy other books like The Adventures of Pinocchio

    ‹ ›
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    William Shakespeare
    Obsolete Spells
    Obsolete Spells
    The Canterbury Tales
    The Canterbury Tales
    Peter Ackroyd
    Four Tragedies
    Four Tragedies
    William Shakespeare
    The Comedies
    The Comedies
    Terence
    Blind Owl
    Blind Owl
    Sadeq Hedayat
    Idylls of the King and a New Selection of Poems
    Idylls of the King and a New Selection of Poems
    Alfred Tennyson
    Twelfth Night
    Twelfth Night
    William Shakespeare
    In Fairyland
    In Fairyland
    Macbeth
    Macbeth
    William Shakespeare
    As You Like It
    As You Like It
    William Shakespeare
    Psyche
    Psyche
    Louis Couperus
    Tales from Shakespeare
    Tales from Shakespeare
    Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
    Four Plays by Aristophanes
    Four Plays by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes
    The Comedy of Errors
    The Comedy of Errors
    William Shakespeare
    The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories
    The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories
    Andreas Karkavitsas
    Paradiso
    Paradiso
    Dante and Dante Alighieri
    The Song of Roland
    The Song of Roland
    The Creation of the World and Other Business
    The Creation of the World and Other Business
    Arthur Miller
    Troilus and Cressida
    Troilus and Cressida
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Henry IV, Part One
    Henry IV, Part One
    William Shakespeare
    The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
    The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
    Plautus
    The Complete Plays
    The Complete Plays
    Christopher Marlowe
    Henry VI, Part 1
    Henry VI, Part 1
    William Shakespeare
    Four Stories by American Women
    Four Stories by American Women
    Various
    The Arabian Nights
    The Arabian Nights
    The Man Who Would Be King
    The Man Who Would Be King
    Rudyard Kipling
    Titus Andronicus & Timon of Athens
    Titus Andronicus & Timon of Athens
    William Shakespeare
    The Canterbury Tales
    The Canterbury Tales
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Erotic Poems
    The Erotic Poems
    Ovid
    Measure for Measure
    Measure for Measure
    William Shakespeare
    Orlando Furioso
    Orlando Furioso
    Ludovico Ariosto
    Get the latest updates from Carlo Collodi
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    By clicking SIGN UP, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
    Dismiss
    Thanks!
    Something awesome is on its way.
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Raise kids who love to read

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read
    Today's Top Books

    Today's Top Books

    Want to know what people are actually reading right now?
    An online magazine for today’s home cook

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook