It’s here, time for discussion of our thoughts on Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio! Leave links to your posts in the comments, or feel free to discuss below. My own post might be a bit delayed due to an unfortunate work deadline that has left me with very little reading time this week, but hopefully will be up sometime later this weekend.
If you’ve never read Pinocchio before (and were only familiar with the Disney version, or another adaptation), was there anything that surprised you?
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Ha ha! This book is completely different from what I expected. It’s a little bit like The Wizard of Oz and the Brother’s Grimm. And it’s very Italian, which is certainly completely lost in the Disney movie. So far, I’m really enjoying it!
Yes, that’s it! I was trying to think of the comparison, and the Oz + Grimm seems just right. I also noted that the Disney version loses the Italianness. Which I suppose isn’t all that surprising. I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying it–so am I, about 1/3 left to go.
Duplicating Lory at Emerald City Book Review’s comment here: “I’ve posted about the Limited Editions Club Pinocchio, illustrated by Richard Floethe: http://www.emeraldcitybookreview.com/2015/01/beautiful-books-pinocchio.html“
Neat! I have a 1947 edition with illustrations by Fritz Kredel which are just wonderful. I’ll try to take some photos and post them with my review.
There are an amazing amount of illustrations around for Pinocchio. If I actually had more than a few minutes of free time, I’d work on a post of some of them, but given the schedule this week, that almost certainly won’t happen.
I finished this read and I absolutely loved it!! Here’s my review: http://cleoclassical.blogspot.ca/2015/01/the-adventures-of-pinocchio-by-carlo.html
Yay! I’m happy to hear you loved it. I’m still a few chapters from the end, but it’s been a great read.
My first post, likely heretical.
Thanks for the link! I’ve been looking forward to your thoughts.
I at last have a post up:
http://seraillon.blogspot.com/2015/01/pinocchio.html
Many thanks for organizing this – a real treat!
You’re welcome! I will check it out.
And mine.