Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The Heart of Pinocchio: New Adventures of the Celebrated Little Puppet

He yawned, stuck out his tongue and licked the end of his nose, opened his eyes, shut them again, opened them once more and rubbed them vigorously with the back of his hand, jumped up, and then sat down on the sofa, listening intently for several minutes, after which he scratc...

Chapters

3. CHAPTER III

May had come with her blossoms, but up there a sharp wind was blowing so that it seemed still February. Pinocchio, half naked as he was, shivered like a leaf, and every now and...

9. CHAPTER IX

It was no easy matter for Ciampanella and Pinocchio to reach their company, which was intrenched about three miles away, on a declivity as sharp as a knife-blade, bordered by ja...

7. CHAPTER VII

If you had come across him unexpectedly in his new costume I assure you you would not have recognized him. On his head was a woolen helmet from which emerged only his eyes and t...

10. CHAPTER X

My dear little friends, I won't stop to show you Pinocchio in the sad surroundings of a hospital. I will tell you only that he stayed there for more than two months, and that he...

1. CHAPTER I

He yawned, stuck out his tongue and licked the end of his nose, opened his eyes, shut them again, opened them once more and rubbed them vigorously with the back of his hand, jum...

6. CHAPTER VI

All three of them were now up again. It was to be for them a day of great gladness. Yet all three were in a bad humor. They didn't even talk. Captain Teschisso, dressed in a bra...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Excuse me, my children, for not having presented Ciampanella to you before. Ciampanella was a pure-blooded Roman, born under the shadow of the Capitol, like--the wolf kept at th...

4. CHAPTER IV

The bersaglieri had passed the Isonzo and were intrenched at ---- (censor). You certainly know now what the Isonzo is, because war teaches geography better than do teachers in t...

5. CHAPTER V

For a long while Pinocchio didn't know whether he was alive or dead. Then after a time he seemed to be dreaming, but the dreams were so queer that ... just imagine, he thought h...

2. CHAPTER II

"So, Colonel, you understand? This afternoon we shall be at ---- (censor); we shall bivouac the troops; to-morrow morning at two we must be on the march. We shall cross the fron...

11. CHAPTER XI

It was a beautiful morning, sparkling with sunshine and glory because the tricolor was waving from the windows of every house and the people in the streets had joy in their eyes...