*The Adventures of Pinocchio* by Carlo Collodi
We finished reading this book tonight. We agreed it was a hit.
Believe it or not, with 9 children, we had NEVER read the classic version of Pinocchio.
When we began the older children were a bit skeptical. They "knew" the whole story of Pinocchio. The first thing they noted was that the writing style is vastly different than the style of today. Jamin and Jared both noted the 3 line long chapter titles that always gave away the plot of the chapter. LOL Jamin loved the vocabulary. After just one night of reading we agreed that this book was going to be different than the Disney version.
We voted tonight and everyone liked the book better than the movie or the Disney book.
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We read this one to Bessie years ago and you reminded me how much we enjoyed it. We hunted and hunted and could not find it, so I just ordered a new copy from PBS.
We are trying to get back into reading more chapter book. We haven't read many since the new kids have been home. They have very short attention spans, but I know Gabe and Bessie will enjoy the reading and hopefully it will help the Littles develop better listening skills.
We read this the original the first time we lived in Germany. Then we went to Collodi to a park about Pinocchio.... it was a fun few hours of walking through displays of scenes from the books... we even got to go inside the whale
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