"Once upon a time there was a piece of wood."
So begins one of the best-loved children's stories ever written, The Adventures of Pinocchio.
From that piece of wood Geppetto the carpenter plans to carve a marionette with which he can earn some money. But when he begins to shape the puppet, the nose seems to grow under his knife, and the mouth starts to laugh as soon as it is formed. Scarcely are the fingers finished when they pluck. off Geppetto's wig, and in a moment Pinocchio leaps out the door in search of adventure.
For more than a century children everywhere have laughed and cried at the escapades of the mischievous puppet who longs to be a real boy. First published in book form in 1883, the story appeared in its most famous edition, the one filled with nearly 300 of Attilio Mussino's spirited color illustrations, in Italy in 1911 and in the United States in 1925.
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