The publisher has timed this unabridged edition of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, illus. by Gris Grimly, to hit bookstores just before Roberto Benigni's (Life Is Beautiful) feature film based on the book.

Forget what you know from the cartoon. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and Italian nationhood “Once upon a time, there was a piece of wood.

Asked to name the two most important things about Pinocchio, most Americans would answer: First, his nose grows when he lies, and second, he is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. At ...

Of the half-dozen or so films that turned Walt Disney, in the public’s mind, from the father of Mickey Mouse to the creator of the animated fairy-tale feature—thereby making his work a fixture in the ...

Rome has the Coliseum, Venice its canals. And then there's Collodi, a tiny Tuscan town that lays claim to something just as famous: Pinocchio. Here, the boy-puppet is a giant, a patron saint, ...

Meticulous direction and an excellent cast bring to life the story of Geppetto and the puppet he crafts from wood ‘Fast is FUN!” bellows Pinocchio as he tears about the stage, testing the limits of ...

Author Carlo Collodi may have drawn inspiration from one—or a few—female figures in his life Antonia Mufarech | Correspondent The Blue-Haired Fairy and the Talking Cricket try to make Pinocchio drink ...

COLLODI, Province of Pistoia — When most people travel to Tuscany, they will spend time inside museums in Florence. They go to Pisa to see the Leaning Tower. They get behind the wheel of a Fiat 500 ...