The Adventures of Pinocchio
Classic Fiction · No. 15 — The wooden puppet who lied, ran, learned, and became a real boy.
- Classic Fiction
- 31 min
- Ages 8–13
- 6 chapters
About this audiobook
Poor Geppetto carves a puppet, Pinocchio, who is mischievous from his first breath — kicking, running off, ignoring the Talking Cricket's good advice. Sold his schoolbooks by love and tricked out of his gold coins by a sly Fox and Cat, Pinocchio tells lies that make his nose shoot out in branches, and only the Blue Fairy keeps saving him. Lured to the Land of Toys with his friend Lampwick, he idles until his ears grow long and he turns into a donkey. Escaping at last into the sea, he is swallowed by an enormous Dogfish — and there, deep in its belly, he finds Geppetto, alive. Carrying the old man out on his back, working and studying and putting others first at last, Pinocchio wakes one morning to find himself a real, live boy.
Why it's worth a listen
An old woodcarver makes a puppet that can walk and talk before the paint is dry — and the little rascal promptly runs away, tells whoppers that grow his nose, and blunders into one scrape after another on his long, bumpy road to becoming a real boy. It is far wilder and funnier than the cartoon: a fox and a cat con-artist duo, a Land of Toys that turns lazy boys into donkeys, and a giant shark that swallows Pinocchio whole. And it turns on the question this telling leaves you with: what is it that turns a wooden puppet into a real boy — honesty, courage, an unselfish heart — and could it turn any of us more real too?
A question to keep
What is it that turns a wooden puppet into a real boy — and could it turn any of us more real too?
Chapters
- 1. The Block of Wood That Talked
- 2. Gold Coins and Clever Beasts
- 3. The Fairy and the Growing Nose
- 4. The Land of Play and Donkey Ears
- 5. The Belly of the Beast
- 6. A Question to Keep