Candida Martinelli's Italophile Site
Main
Page This family-friendly site celebrates Italian culture for the enjoyment of children and
adults. Site-Overview
Quick link to my free,
illustrated, PDF Pinocchio book.
Six Pinocchio Coloring Pages on this
site
Visit Disney's online Zazzle shop for all sorts of fun
Pinocchio products Illustration by Attilio Mussini from the 1911
edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio Illustration by Enrico Mazzanti from the first
edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio in 1883 The cover of the
free illustrated e-book edition of
The Adventures of Pinocchio (PDF) available from this website A sample page from the e-book A sample page from the e-book There is a Pinocchio amusement park in the town of Collodi, in
Italy, the home town of the author, Lorenzini, which he took as his
pen-name. They have a wonderful website, with charming animations,
explanations, and even games for children to play. You can find out everything Pinocchio related in a wide range of
products by searching through Amazon.com's offerings with this search
tool. Just leave 'All Products' in the 'Search' field, then enter
'Pinocchio' in the 'Keywords' field. Then click on the 'Go' button
to get the full list of items. I link directly to a few of them
below.
If you live in Florida, USA, you can see a live marionette show at
Pinocchio's Marionette
Theatre. They do birthday parties. Visit
Disney's online Zazzle shop for all sorts of fun Pinocchio
products. You can choose from lots of different Pinocchio and
Jiminy Cricket images to put on any Zazzle product. Zazzle is a top-rated,
secure, internet store. The
Italian author, Carlo Lorenzini, took the name of his mother’s village
as his pen name, Collodi.
Early in his career, he wrote
satirical articles and plays. After translating some children's
stories for an Italian publisher, be began to write children’s
stories for publication in magazines and as books.
From
1881 to 1883 he wrote the stories that make up The Adventures of
Pinocchio.
They appeared as installments in a magazine for children called Giornale per i bambini, “Magazine for Children”.
After
the last installment in 1883, all the installments were collected
together in a book which has become the third most popular book ever
written. The Adventures of Pinocchio has been translated into over two hundred
languages. It has been called a manual for childhood, and it has
proven to be a manual that can easily cross cultural divides. Carlo Lorenzini died seven years after the publication of the first
edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio. By then, the book
had entered into it's fifth printing and it has never been out of print,
somewhere in the world, since. The Adventures of Pinocchio is a classic Italian children's
story that is available in an English translation as a public domain
plain-text file. From that file, I've created an illustrated
e-book (PDF) edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio, for free
distribution from this page, to be read using the Acrobat Reader. If you need help with e-books, try my free Lessons on
E-text and E-book downloading and reading, available from the main
page of this site. I've formatted the e-book pages in landscape with an enlarged text
size. This means you can page through the book without needing to
scroll, or to enlarge the text size to read it with ease. This
also means it is a size that children can read on their own, needing to
use only one or two buttons from the Reader window to page
through the story. When you click here,
or on the talking parrot (like the one in the story) to
the right, the PDF file will open automatically in the Acrobat
Reader installed on your computer. Once it is fully loaded
(all 321 pages), use the Reader's Save File As feature to save the file to a directory on you computer.
Later, you can open it either in the Acrobat Reader or from your Windows
Explorer window by double-clicking on it. I selected over 250 images that would complement the text, but could
also offer the reader an opportunity to discuss aspects of life and the
world around us with the lucky child to whom he is reading. The
images are usually of an object or animal mentioned in the story, but
they sometimes offer a distraction from a particularly sad
passage. The story was written in a different time, so there are parts of the
work that focus on the harsh realities of that period (1880's) which no
longer apply to the lives of most children in the West today. The
reader can easily skip those passages and discuss instead the image
provided. The e-book is free and you are free to give it to friends and
colleagues. The file has been checked for viruses and is
clean. Be sure you keep it that way before you pass it
around. It might be easier to just send people a link to this page
so they can download it directly from here. It you'd like, you can read the first
three chapters of my illustrated Pinocchio on-line as normal
pages of this site. Click here
to go to the first three chapters. The Heart of Pinocchio (1919) is a sequel written by Collodi's
nephew. It is available, free, online via the Gutenberg Press. Link to the download
page from which you can select a book format such as Kindle, EPub,
etc. To
read the book online, or to preview what is in the book, this is the
link to the HTML version, which includes the illustrations. Project Gutenberg
offers a free audio book
version of the Italian text that you can download. And the
Biblioteca Italiana online has the Italian version available to read
online (thank you Erich, for the link tip).
My list of Pinocchio
books at Amazon.com And
Visit my Children's Books Page According to the Internet Movie Database, Pinocchio is the major
character in over 22 films, 6 TV movies, 5 TV series, and one video
game! The latest film version is Roberto Benigni's 2002 release of Pinocchio.
The character, as described by Lorenzini in his stories, seems perfectly
suited to Benigni's comic style. Cover of the DVD of Roberto Benigni's film version
of Pinocchio from 2002
The
Adventures of Pinocchio - free illustrated e-book for children, DVDs...
Make a Pinocchio product at Zazzle.
Carlo Lorenzini (Collodi), the author
Free E-book
Edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio
Three Illustrated Chapters
The Sequel
In the Original Italian
Pinocchio Books
Pinocchio in Other Media
