Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

This edition of Collodi's classic tale of a wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy features a new Introduction by Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual piece of wood - and the finished puppet can talk and misbehave like the liveliest child. But Pinocchio is brave and inquisitive as well as naughty, and after some hair-raising adventures, he earns his heart's desire.