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Audio Podcast Novel: Pinocchio (Chapter 2)

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Per l’Italia! For playing in the living room!

This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa. The first seventeen chapters of this wonderful novel were recorded intermittently between 1999 and 2006, specifically for children to enjoy on the web. But I was unable to finish it. It is a very long story indeed and the demands of this particular recording were very great. I have decided that it would be a good thing for Italy and its most beautiful living rooms if I were to finally finish the book. I am cleaning up the sound a little bit and will start recording the eighteenth chapter soon. So here we begin the long story and in a few months we will reach the finish!

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Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima

All audio stories are Copyright © Candlelight Stories, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute copies of our MP3 audio or video stories. They are for your personal use. If you choose to burn our MP3 stories onto a personal CD, do not make copies of the CD or distribute them to other people. Also, do not sell CDs containing our audio stories. All audio stories are copyrighted by Candlelight Stories, Inc.

Audio Podcast Novel: Pinocchio (Chapter 1)

by Editor

DOWNLOAD PINOCCHIO – CHAPTER 1

Per l’Italia!  For playing in the living room!

This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world.  Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy.  His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy.  This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa.  The first seventeen chapters of this wonderful novel were recorded intermittently between 1999 and 2006, specifically for children to enjoy on the web.  But I was unable to finish it.  It is a very long story indeed and the demands of this particular recording were very great.  I have decided that it would be a good thing for Italy and its most beautiful living rooms if I were to finally finish the book.  I am cleaning up the sound a little bit and will start recording the eighteenth chapter soon.  So here we begin the long story and in a few months we will reach the finish!

Subscribe to audio podcast

Subscribe to audio with iTunes

Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima

All audio stories are Copyright © Candlelight Stories, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute copies of our MP3 audio or video stories. They are for your personal use. If you choose to burn our MP3 stories onto a personal CD, do not make copies of the CD or distribute them to other people. Also, do not sell CDs containing our audio stories. All audio stories are copyrighted by Candlelight Stories, Inc.

Animation: A Bicycle Trip

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Here’s a short animated film from Italy by Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Nambiar and Marco Avoletta. Every trip on a bike should be such a good trip as this. I love the glass trees near the end.

There is also a web site for the film.

New Translation of Pinocchio

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This is an audio interview with Tim Parks on The New York Review of Books about the new translation of Carlo Collodi’s ‘Pinocchio‘ by English poet Geoffrey Brock.  Parks connects Collodi’s original work with the unification of Italy and his views on the place of education in society.  The interview has a lot of information about Collodi and the incredible novel about the naughty little wooden boy.  If you’ve seen the Disney movie, trust me, you have not seen anything close to Pinocchio.  That movie, though a brilliant demonstration of animation technique, is simply dreadful and I have never watched it without falling asleep well before the halfway point.  Animators love to talk about the genius of Disney and its film of Pinocchio, but they are not being honest.  It is a giant crashing bore.  Read the wonderful book which is full of danger and is actually a very dark and disturbing tale, as most good children’s stories should be. At the end of the podcast, Tim Parks reads a selection from the new translation which sounds quite good.

Get the new version of Pinocchio here.

The image is by Enrico Mazzanti who was the original illustrator of Pinocchio.