Once upon a time there was a poor wood carver named Gepeto. One day he was making a puppet from a tree branch, “You shall be my little boy and I shall call you Pinokio” said Gepeto. He worked very hard carving each detail. After he finished the puppet he was very shocked because the puppet just talked to him, “You can talk?” Gepeto surprised, “of course, I can silly, you give me a mouth to talk witk you” answered Pinokio. Gepeto was very happy and he said to Pinokio that he would have a normal life just like a normal boy, including school.
The next day on the way to school Pinokio stopped to see a puppet show, “I can dance better than that” he said, quickly he climbed on to the stage. At first the puppet master didn’t like Pinokio but when he saw that the crowd loved him, he just let Pinokio stayed. At the end of the show, the puppet master gave Pinokio five copper coins and told him to go straight home.
On the way home Pinokio met a lame fox and a blind cat, knowing that Pinokio had money they pretended to be his friend, they tricked Pinokio to put his money under a tree, “If you put your money under a tree, the money will become gold” they said to Pinokio. After a while the fox and the cat that were not really lame and blind quickly snuck away and disguised themselves as thieves. When Pinokio started digging the money, they pounced on him “Give us the money!” they ordered. Just then the guardian of Pinokio the blue fairy sent a dog to chase the fox and the cat, and take Pinokio back to her castle.
“Why didn’t you go to school today?” said the blue fairy. “I did” answered Pinokio. Just then his nose started to shot out like a tree branch, Pinokio was surprised and very sad, “Why does my nose become long? What’s wrong with me?” asked Pinokio to the blue fairy. “Every time you tell a lie your nose will grow but if you tell the truth it will shrink” answered the blue fairy. And she also said that Pinokio would be a real boy if he learnt how to be brave, generous, and honest. Then she told him to go home and not stop for any reason.
Not very long, Pinokio met some boys, the boys said that they knew a place to have fun, so Pinokio followed them. The boys took Pinokio to a circus but they didn’t know that if they were bad they would be turned into donkeys and trained for the circus. All boys turned into donkeys but because Pinokio was made from a tree branch, he didn’t change completely. So the circus master threw him into the sea.
After Pinokio swam for a long time a whale ate him, “Oh no, I am inside the stomach of a whale, what should I do?” Pinokio shocked and worried. Then he heard a voice from inside the whale stomach. It turned out that the voice was from Gepeto. Gepeto was looking for Pinokio. Inside the stomach of a whale, Pinokio told a lie to Gepeto so that his nose would grow to tickle the whale. When the whale sneezed, it blew them out from the stomach.
At last, Pinokio was very happy and he remembered what the blue fairy had told him. The next morning Pinokio came running down the steps, jumping and waving his arms. He ran to Gepeto and shouted “Look father, I am a real boy”. Since that, Gepeto and Pinokio lived happily.
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