Carlo Collodi, Author Starscape Books $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7653-4458-8
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. Grimly applies the same off-kilter, skewed ...
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Carlo Collodi, Author, Lorenzo Mattotti, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-12450-2
Most children today know Pinocchio as a cherub-faced Disney creation brought to life by a wish on a distant star. Adapted from Collodi's 1883 work, this sparkling edition reintroduces a much more intriguing hero--``a piece of wood with a mind of its
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Carlo Collodi, Author, Cooper Edens, Compiled by Chronicle Books $19.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2283-1
As he did with Peter Pan and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, vintage picture book collector Cooper Edens here selects an assortment of early 20th-century artwork to pay homage to Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio. Vittorio Accornero's austere...
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Carlo Collodi, illus. by Swarna Chitrakar. Tara (PGW, dist.), $18.95 (188p) ISBN 978-93-83145-12-6
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 story; Geppetto is pictured as a serene, mustachioed
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Carlo Collodi, trans. from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock, illus. by Fulvio Testa. New York Review Books, $24.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-59017-588-0
“[T]hough written in the nineteenth century, the original Pinocchio remains as readable as if it had been written in the twenty-first, so limpid and simple is its prose,” writes Italian author Umberto Eco in the introduction to Collodi’s classic...
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Carlo Collodi, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator Philomel Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-22941-1
Midway on the spectrum between the harshness of Carlo Collodi's (1826-1890) original and the sweet, sanitized Disney version lies this thoughtful adaptation. Young (Seven Blind Mice) views the story theatrically, in an author's note emphasizing the...
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Carlo Collodi, Author, Sara Fanelli, Illustrator, Emma Rose, Translator , illus. by Sara Fanelli, trans. by Emma Rose. Candlewick $18.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2261-9
Fanelli (First Flight
) provides abstract illustrations for a deluxe edition of Collodi's cautionary tale. Distilled into pithy chapters by translator Rose, the book comes packaged in a paper-over-board edition with an attractive postmodern...
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Carlo Collodi, Author, Lassen Ghiuselev, Illustrator, Iassen Ghiuselev, Illustrator Simply Read $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-9688768-0-0
Iassen Ghiuselev brings the famous puppet-turned-boy to life in Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, trans. by Carol della Chiesa. His b&w drawings possess the detail and craftsmanship of woodcuts, his paintings a psychological depth that reaches far past...
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Carlo Collodi, Author, Gris Grimly, Illustrator, Gus Grimly, Illustrator Tor Books $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0591-6
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. Grimly applies the same off-kilter, skewed ...
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Carlo Collodi, Author, E. Harden, Translator, Roberto Innocenti, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $18.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-394-82110-8
Innocenti's luminous interpretation of Collodi's tale carves the action out of 19th century Italian landscapes. Clearly shown as a mocking marionette, this Pinocchio races through cobbled city scenes and then throws himself prostrate at the personor
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Carlo Collodi, Author, Nancy Canepa, Translator, Carmelo Lettere, Illustrator Steerforth Press $12.95 (209p) ISBN 978-1-58642-052-9
On December 25, a new live-action version of the classic tale Pinocchio, starring and directed by Roberto Benigni, will open in the U.S. Many versions of the original story by Carlo Collodi are already available, but Steerforth Press is issuing a
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