Pinocchio: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pinocchio, credited to Carlo Collodi, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. (Translated by Carol Della Chiesa.) Read in English by Phil Chenevert This is the wonderful story of Pinocchio, the puppet who must learn many lessons before he can become a real boy. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he dreamed of becoming a real boy but strays from the path of goodness many times and is very willing to listen to temptation. He has also been used as a character who is prone to telling lies and fabricating stories for various reasons. The story has appeared in many adaptations in other mediums. Pinocchio has been called an icon of modern culture, and one of most reimagined characters in the pantheon of children's literature. Listen to his many adventures, scrapes, misdeeds and pranks followed by bouts of sincere repentance and remorse. But these last only until the next enticing adventure or misdeed presents itself. Of course he does finally learn his lesson and does become a real boy when finally understanding that love and duty come first before pleasure and play. (summary from wikipedia and the reader)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pinocchio
• Author credits: Carlo Collodi
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 5:02:59

Catalogue topics

• children
• Italian
• puppet

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - The Piece of Wood That Laughed and Cried Like a Child — 4:53
2. 02 - Master Cherry Gives the Wood Away — 4:55
3. 03 - Geppetto Names His Puppet Pinocchio — 7:46
4. 04 - The Talking-Cricket Scolds Pinocchio — 4:42
5. 05 - The Flying Egg — 4:55
6. 06 - Pinocchio's Feet Burn to Cinders — 3:00
7. 07 - Geppetto Gives His Own Breakfast to Pinocchio — 6:58
8. 08 - Geppetto Makes Pinocchio New Feet — 5:09
9. 09 - Pinocchio Goes To See a Puppet-Show — 5:07
10. 10 - The Puppets Recognize Their Brother Pinocchio — 5:03
11. 11 - Fire-Eater Sneezes and Pardons Pinocchio — 6:50
12. 12 - Pinocchio Receives a Present of Five Gold Pieces — 9:22
13. 13 - The Inn of the Red Craw-Fish — 6:59
14. 14 - Pinocchio Falls Among Assassins — 7:21
15. 15 - The Assassins Hang Pinocchio to the Big Oak — 5:50
16. 16 - The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet — 7:00
17. 17 - Pinocchio Will Not Take His Medicine — 9:19
18. 18 - Pinocchio Again Meets the Fox and the Cat — 9:33
19. 19 - Pinocchio Is Robbed of His Money — 7:50
20. 20 - Pinocchio Starts Back to the Fairy's House — 5:48
21. 21 - Pinocchio Acts as Watch-dog — 5:04
22. 22 - Pinocchio Discovers the Robbers — 6:10
23. 23 - Pinocchio Flies to the Seashore — 10:09
24. 24 - Pinocchio Finds the Fairy Again — 11:30

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