The Adventures of Pinocchio

Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa Illustrated By ALICE CARSEY Pinocchio is a fictional character that first appeared in 1883, in The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and has since appeared in many adaptations of that story and others. Carved from a piece of pine by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he was created as a wooden puppet, but dreamt of becoming a real boy.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.