We learn in the biographical note to Everyman’s new edition of Pinocchio that Carlo Collodi never had children. Any reader of this book will understand why. Collodi loathed children. Boys especially, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Originally published as a serialized magazine story in 1881, The Adventures of Pinocchio may have been written for children, but Collodi — the pen name of seminary student-turned-author Carlo ...

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 ...

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.

The Italian director Matteo Garrone hopes to surprise audiences this Christmas with a very literal retelling of the children’s classic. By Elisabetta Povoledo ROME — Carlo Collodi’s “Pinocchio” is one ...

Bengali scroll painter Chitrakar reimagines The Adventures of Pinocchio using traditional Indian folk art iconography. Thickly painted figures in bright bold colors appear in panels throughout the ...

This piece is drawn from “Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love,” out from FSG on February 3rd. When I was a boy I was made distinctly uncomfortable ...

Disney continues its string of live-action remakes with Robert Zemeckis’ Pinocchio, set to be released on Disney+ September 8th. Disney’s first adaptation of the story came in 1940, and was only the ...