Pinocchio Book

1 How it happened that Master Cherry, a carpenter, found a piece of wood that cried and laughed like a little boy 3
2 Master Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friend Geppetto, who wants to make it into an amazing puppet that can dance and fence and do flips 6
3 Back home, Geppetto immediately begins work on his puppet, which he names Pinocchio. The puppet's first pranks 9
4 The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, which shows that naughty children can't stand to be corrected by those who know best 13
5 Pinocchio gets hungry and finds an egg to make an omelet with, but at the last second the omelet flies away, out the window 16
6 Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet propped on the brazier, and the next morning he finds that his feet have burnt off 19
7 Poor Geppetto comes home and gives the puppet the breakfast he had brought for himself 21
8 Geppetto makes Pinocchio a new pair of feet and sells his own coat to buy him a spelling book 24
9 Pinocchio sells his spelling book in order to go see the Great Puppet Show 27
10 The puppets recognize Pinocchio as their brother and welcome him raucously; but when the puppet master shows up, Pinocchio is in danger of meeting a tragic end 30
11 Fire-Eater sneezes and forgives Pinocchio, who then saves his friend Harlequin from death 33
12 Fire-Eater gives Pinocchio five gold pieces to take to his father, Geppetto. But Pinocchio is duped by the Fox and the Cat and goes off with them instead 36
13 The Red Crayfish Inn 41
14 Because he ignored the Talking Cricket's good advice, Pinocchio runs into murderers 45
15 The murderers chase Pinocchio, and when they catch him they hang him from a branch of theBig Oak 49
16 The Beautiful Girl with Sky-Blue Hair has the puppet taken down. She puts him to bed, and calls in three doctors to learn if he's alive or dead 52
17 Pinocchio eats the sugar, but won't take the purgative until he sees the gravediggers coming to carry him away. Then he tells a lie and, as punishment, his nose grows longer 56
18 Pinocchio again encounters the Fox and the Cat and goes with them to plant his four coins in the Field of Miracles 61
19 Pinocchio is robbed of his gold coins and, as punishment, gets four months in jail 66
20 Freed from jail, he tries to return to the Fairy's house, but along the way he encounters a terrible Serpent, and after that he gets caught in a snare 70
21 Pinocchio is seized by a farmer and made to serve as a watchdog outside a henhouse 73
22 Pinocchio thwarts the thieves and as a reward for being faithful is granted his liberty 76
23 Pinocchio mourns the death of the Beautiful Girl with Sky-Blue Hair. Then he meets a Pigeon who carries him to the sea, where he dives into the water to try to rescue Geppetto 79
24 Pinocchio reaches Busy-Bee Island and finds the Fairy with Sky-Blue Hair again 84
25 Pinocchio promises the Fairy that he'll be good and to study, because he's tired of being a puppet and wants to become a good boy 90
26 Pinocchio goes to the seashore with his schoolmates to see the terrible Shark 93
27 A great fight between Pinocchio and his schoolmates; one gets wounded, and the police arrest Pinocchio 96
28 Pinocchio is in danger of being fried up in a skillet, like a fish 102
29 Pinocchio returns to the house of the Fairy, who promises him that the next day he will cease to be a puppet and become a boy, A big breakfast is planned to celebrate this great event 107
30 Instead of becoming a boy, Pinocchio sneaks off with his friend Lampwick to Toyland 114
31 After five months of nonstop fun, Pinocchio wakes up one morning to a rather nasty surprise 119
32 Pinocchio is amazed to discover a fine pair of donkey ears sprouting from his head. He turns into a donkey, tail and all, and begins to bray 125
33 Now a real donkey, Pinocchio is taken to market and sold to the Ringmaster of a circus, who wants to teach him to dance and jump through hoops. But one evening he becomes lame and so is sold to another man who wants to make a drum out of his hide 131
34 Thrown into the sea, Pinocchio is eaten by fish and becomes a puppet again. But as he is swimming to safety, he is swallowed up by the terrible Shark 139
35 Inside the Shark's belly, Pinocchio is reunited with - with whom? Read this chapter to find out 146
36 At last Pinocchio ceases to be a puppet and becomes a boy 151