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«Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.» The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Old Joe carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which he is pursued by the Fox and the Cat, adviced by the Talking Cricket, his nose grows when he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and swallowed by a shark, before he gains real happiness. This new translation does full justice to the vibrancy and wit of Collodi’s original. Far more sophisticated, funny, and hard-hitting than the many abridged versions (and the sentimentalized film) of the story would suggest, Ann Lawson Lucas’s translation captures the complexity of Collodi’s word-play, slapstick humour, and immediacy of dialogue.