Written by Carlo Collodi

It is the story of a woodcarver named Geppetto who makes a wooden puppet. The puppet, who Geppetto names Pinocchio, is very naughty and gets into trouble all the time.

“And the four pieces—where have you put them?” asked the Fairy. 

“I have lost them!” said Pinocchio, but he was telling a lie, for he had them in his pocket. 

He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two inches longer. 

“And where did you lose them?

“In the wood near here.”

At this second lie his nose went on growing.

“If you have lost them in the wood near here,” said the Fairy, “we will look for them and we shall find them: because everything that is lost in that wood is always found.”

“Ah! now I remember all about it,” replied the puppet, getting quite confused; “I didn’t lose the four gold pieces, I swallowed them whilst I was drinking your medicine.”

At this lie his nose grew to such an extraordinary length that poor Pinocchio could not move in any direction.