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Gr 1-4 Pinocchio the Boy picks up where Pinocchio the classic left off, and therein lies the delightfully ingenious plot of Lane's picture book-what would happen if the puppet was turned into a boy, but no one, not even Pinocchio himself, realized it. Pinocchio is off to the town of Collodi in search of some chicken soup for an ailing Geppetto, who is in bed cold and feverish from being in that fish's belly in the original story. With no money for soup, the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Getting what you want and knowing who you are turn out to be very different things, as Pinocchio discovers (or, rather, doesn't discover) when the Blue Fairy changes him into a real boy: "But he had no idea! That nutty fairy had changed him while he was asleep." After efficiently retelling the tale of Pinocchio in a neatly formatted flow chart, Smith turns the happy ending into another story, as Geppetto, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More