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The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio), often simply Pinocchio, is a classic Italian children's fantasy novel authored by Carlo Lorenzini (1826–1890) under his pen name of Carlo Collodi. The stories were originally published serially in the weekly Giornale per i bambini (literally "newspaper for children") from July 1881 to February 1882 by the title of The Story of a Puppet (La storia di un burattino). The publications met much acclaim, prompting Lorenzini to compile the stories and publish them as a novel in February 1883.

The novel tells the story of a magic log that was carved into a wooden puppet by Geppetto, an old woodcarver living in poverty in Tuscany. The puppet, the eponymous Pinocchio, is rambunctious and troublesome but stricken with the desire to become a real human boy. Pinocchio may achieve his dream if he proves himself to a blue fairy that shows faith in him, but the journey is grueling as his naïveté and misbehavior leads him into scenarios where devious characters take advantage of him.

Adaptations

The Adventures of Pinocchio is one of the most translated and transformed stories in the modern age, having as many as 260 different translations and dozens of adaptations made both during and after Lorenzini's lifetime, especially now as the original story entered the public domain in 1960.