Pinocchio, but not as we know it.

I’ve been reading Pinocchio as my bedtime story with SB lately. The original story.

Like most people I suspect, my knowledge of Pinocchio comes from the Disney film version. That’s fine, certianly it’s a bit of classic, but it certainly has been Disney-fied.

So far there has been a talking cricket, but Pinocchio squashes it and kills it – he throws something at it IIRC. Though it’s since comes back as a ghost.

Pinocchio has bitten the paw off of a cat (when a fox and cat try to mug him). And they then hang him from a tree when they can’t stab him, here he seems to die, but seems now to have come back to life after having been rescued.