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One night, Geppetto the wood carver made a wish. He wished his puppet Pinocchio were a real boy! When the Blue Fairy brings Pinocchio to life, she tells the puppet he can become a real boy if he proves himself brave, truthful, and unselfish. Listen along as Pinocchio embarks on a journey of a lifetime!

Magical retellings of three classic fairy tales, read by Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan. "Pinocchio": When Geppetto makes a wooden puppet of a little boy, he is astonished when the puppet comes to life! But Pinocchio dreams of being a real boy.... "The Princess and the Pea": The King and Queen have made all the plans for their son's Royal Wedding, but the Prince still hasn't chosen a bride. Will he ever find a wife who is a princess through and through? "Tom Thumb": A woodcutter and his wife are desperate for a child - even one as small as his father's thumb.

When the old woodcarver Geppetto decides to make a puppet boy to dance and turn summersaults, he doesn't know that he has chosen a magical piece of wood. To his amazement, his puppet can talk and play, just like the liveliest child. But a human soul must be earned; and thus begin the adventures...

Pinocchio wakes ones morning excited to learn the night before hadn't been a dream. The Blue Fairy had answered a wish and turning him into a real boy. Join the fun in this audio tale as Pinocchio spends his first day as a real boy learning about the world around him.

The perfect gift for all ages, Pinocchio as you’ve never seen him before: telling his own story through the master storyteller and award-winning author of WAR HORSE. “Now – there’s no point in pretending here – I was, and still am deep down, a puppet. Everyone knows Pinocchio is a...

A mischievous wooden puppet comes to life and wants to become a real boy...

Avec la fantaisie et la sensibilité qu'on lui connait, Marlène Jobert raconte dans cette collection les plus beaux contes du monde. Ces récits captivants, où se mêlent le merveilleux et l'aventure, enchanteront l'imaginaire des enfants tout en leur transmettant des valeurs essentielles comme la justice, la générosité, le courage, la persévérance, la tolérance... des clés fondamentales pour vivre en harmonie.

Meet Mr. Fox and Kitty. They are both two orphans, who stand out from the rest of the children, even the villagers think they are odd. But the Fox and Kitty meet by chance at an orphanage, and Mr. Fox wants nothing more than a family, as well as Kitty.

Candlewick is a young boy who’s an orphan, and he longs to belong to a family. He envies Pinocchio and the other children in his village for their good luck and fortune, while his caretaker is a strict restaurant owner who treats him like a servant. One day, he’s invited to go to a magical place with promises of fun and a place where he’s free to be whoever he wants to be, but it all comes with a price.

Carlo Collodi's whimsical recasting of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea was first published in 1883 and has since become an established classic of children's literature. Geppetto, a poor wood carver, receives a piece of wood from which he carves a marionette. Much to his surprise, the puppet springs to life and embarks on a wild series of adventures.

In a magical world of fairies, two fairies are destined to protect their world from danger by the Fairy King and Queen. However, they are forbidden to make contact with the mortal world.

Raconté par Anny Duperey, Pinocchio est un pantin de bois crée par Geppetto, un pauvre menuisier italien.

Con questo audiolibro Gruppo Mondadori si impegna a sostenere l'operato di SOS Villaggi dei Bambini in favore dei bambini e le loro famiglie attraverso una donazione. L'audiolibro è letto in sinergia tra rappresentanti di tutte le generazioni, per costruire una storia unica e dare "una voce a ogni voce". Uno dei capolavori letterari di tutti i tempi. Ma soprattutto un racconto, come sottolinea il professor Giancarlo Alfano nella sua introduzione, di una "potenza mitologica" tale che "gli ha permesso di affermarsi molto velocemente nell'immaginario mondiale".

Pinocchio wird wieder einmal von Rumpelstilzchen ausgetrickst, nachdem er ihn um Hilfe gebeten hat. Unser Held hat Coppos Brille zerbrochen und ist besorgt, dass er nicht an einem Schulausflug teilnehmen kann, wenn seine Nase die Wahrheit verrät. Das Problem ist nur, dass stattdessen Luzio für Pinocchios Tat verantwortlich gemacht wird.

Ein Schausteller veranstaltet seinen Karneval in der Nähe des verzauberten Dorfes, während die Bewohner den Collodi-Tag feiern - ein außergewöhnliches Ereignis, bei dem der Goldene Fisch, der Glücksbringer des Dorfes, ausgestellt wird. Pinocchio und Betulla bemerken bald, dass die Dorfbewohner unter einem Zauber zu stehen scheinen.

Pinocchio und seine Freunde treffen einen geheimnisvollen Wahrsager, Luminas, dessen Vorhersagen sich als wahr und unglaublich präzise erweisen. Als er jedoch erklärt, dass Pinocchio verhext ist und eine Katastrophe auf das Dorf zukommt, geraten die Freunde in Panik. Wieder einmal scheint alles für die Vorhersagen des Wahrsagers zu sprechen.

Die Hexe, die wegen Pinocchio versehentlich in eine Fee verwandelt wurde, will unbedingt wieder zu ihrer alten Gestalt zurückkehren. Für jemanden mit einem bösen Ruf wie sie ihn hat ist es unerträglich, eine gute Fee zu sein!

Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who comes to life and has the most astonishing adventure. A naughty, mischievous creature, he is full of good intentions but is greedy, and lets nothing stand in his way. His maker, poor Gepetto, loves him like a son, but Pinocchio just can't stay out of trouble.

Pinocchio, a marionette, must earn the right to become a real boy by proving to be truthful, brave and selfless. He is assisted by Jimmy Cricket, his assigned conscience...

In this Italian children's classic, a lonely toymaker named Gepetto creates a small wooden puppet who magically comes to life. In a series of mischievous adventures, Pinocchio thinks he can get by on a variety of clever lies and tricks. There is one problem: his nose grows every time he tells a lie. One way or another, the truth always comes out, and Pinocchio finds out that lying does not pay.