Collodi, Italy, birthplace of the beloved wooden puppet, honors its literary roots with parks, art and global recognition.

Consider the puppet’s strange journey: Carved from a piece of wood in 1881, he has been hoodwinked, knocked around, swallowed by a giant fish, made over by Disney and recreated as everything from a ...

With Guillermo del Toro working on writing and pre-production for The Hobbit, one would've thought it would be impossible for him to be thinking about anything else. Well, Bloody Disgusting brings us ...

Maria Pia Timo, Alida Baldari Calabria and Federico Ielapi in “Pinocchio.” What is it about “Pinocchio”? Italian writer Carlo Collodi’s 1883 children’s book — a fable about a wooden puppet who yearns ...

This is no lie: Pinocchio is one of the most popular characters in children’s literature. It’s true, the little wooden puppet with a penchant for lying has become an Italian icon and now the subject ...

Pinocchio follows the story of Geppetto, a kind, but lonely wood-carver who builds a puppet named Pinocchio and raises him as if he were a real child. The puppet, Pinocchio, longs to be a “real boy” ...