{"title":"Carlo Collodi","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarlo Collodi, 1826 to 1890, was a Florentine newspaperman and translator who came to children's writing late and without much enthusiasm for it. He ran \u003cem\u003ePinocchio: The Tale of the Puppet\u003c\/em\u003e in installments in a children's paper from 1881, reportedly intending to kill the character off before readers made him continue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original is far tougher and stranger than the soft version everybody thinks they know. The puppet is selfish, he is repeatedly warned, he ignores the warnings, and the consequences arrive. Lies catch up with him. Work, and looking after someone other than himself, are what finally make him real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren feel the justice in it immediately, which is why it has never needed softening. Parents tend to find it harder going than their children do.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pinocchio-tale-of-the-puppet-carlo-collodi-hardcover","title":"Pinocchio: The Tale of the Puppet by Carlo Collodi (Hardcover)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eItalian Classic \/ Character Formation \/ Western Literature \/ Restored Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForget the cartoon. Meet Pinocchio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlo Collodi's original \u003cem\u003ePinocchio\u003c\/em\u003e is stranger, darker, funnier, and far more morally serious than many readers expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in book form in 1883, \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Pinocchio\u003c\/em\u003e follows a wooden puppet whose hunger for freedom repeatedly places him in the hands of flatterers, swindlers, distractions, temptations, and consequences. Collodi was the pen name of Carlo Lorenzini.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePinocchio wants independence before he has acquired judgment. That is where the trouble begins. He lies. He runs. He ignores good advice. He mistakes pleasure for freedom and cleverness for wisdom. Again and again, reality corrects him. And slowly, painfully, he changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead as an adult or young adult, the story becomes something far richer than a children's fable. It is about impulse, manipulation, responsibility, education, work, family, conscience, gullibility, and the difficult process of becoming someone capable of genuine freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe villains matter because Pinocchio keeps making himself available to them. The lessons matter because he has to live through them. And becoming real begins to mean something more demanding than changing from wood into flesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis unabridged edition from Trumpet Publishing House restores Collodi's complete story for readers ready to discover the original beneath generations of adaptations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor young adults, professionals, parents, educators, literary readers, and anyone interested in character formation, Pinocchio poses a question with surprising force: What if freedom without judgment is simply another way of being controlled?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe puppet has to learn how to become a person. 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