Italian children's literature

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: Italian children's magazines, Italian children's writers, Italian fairy tales, Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Dino Buzzati, Geronimo Stilton, Geppetto, Mokku of the Oak Tree, Pinocchio paradox, Pentamerone, Il Guerrin Meschino, Piccolino no Boken, Land of Toys, Gianni Rodari, When You Wish upon a Star, The Pig King, Buratino, Lydia Ugolini, Biancabella and the Snake, Leo Lionni, Edmondo De Amicis, Heart, Guerrino and the Savage Man, Ancilotto, King of Provino, Prunella, Giambattista Basile, The King of Love, Pinocchio's Daring Journey, Corriere dei Piccoli, The Enchanted Snake, Salvator Gotta, Penta of the Chopped-off Hands, The New Adventures of Pinocchio, The Three Crowns, The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, The Story of Bensurdatu, The Fair Fiorita, Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi, The Love for Three Oranges, The Raven, The Three Fairies, Sun, Moon, and Talia, Pintosmalto, The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, How to find out a True Friend, The She-bear, Snow-White-Fire-Red, Costanza / Costanzo, Sapia Liccarda, Fontana a Pinocchio, Peruonto, Bella Venezia, Thirteenth, Misfortune, The Young Slave, How the Devil Married Three Sisters, Catherine and her Destiny, How the Hermit helped to win the King's Daughter, The Canary Prince, The Little Girl Sold with the Pears, The Cunning Shoemaker, Cannetella, The Goat-faced Girl, The Enchanted Doe, The King who would have a Beautiful Wife, The Three Enchanted Princes, How the Beggar Boy turned into Count Piro, Corvetto, The Myrtle, The Merchant, The Dove, Fair Brow, Il giornalino della Domenica, The Golden Lion, In Love with a Statue, Don Joseph Pear, The Three Sisters, The Months, Pinocchio illusion, Emanuela Da Ros, The Flea, Gioventù Fascista, I've Got No Strings, The Slave Mother, Water and Salt, Pinocchio's Christmas, Edina Altara, Figli d'Italia, Ida Baccini, Petrosinella. Excerpt: The Adventures of Pinocchio ( , US dict: ; Italian: ) is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 and 1883, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio (pronounced in Italian), an animated marionette, and his poor father, a woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art, such as Disney's 1940 animated movie of the same name, and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. The Adventures of Pinocchio is a story about an animated puppet, talking crickets, boys who turn into donkeys and other fairy tale devices that would be familiar to a reader of Alice in Wonderland or Brothers Grimm; in fact earlier in his career Collodi worked on a translation of Mother Goose. However, Pinocchio's world is not a traditional fairy-tale world, instead containing the hard realities of the need for food, shelter, and the basic measures of daily life. The setting of the story is in fact the very real Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary melding of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name. Collodi originally had not intended the novel as children's literature; the ending was unhappy and allegorically dealt with serious themes. In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death...