The Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
The original 1883 Pinocchio, not the film. A carpenter finds a piece of wood that laughs, and the puppet cut from it runs away, is robbed, is hanged, is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a shark, all while meaning to be good tomorrow.
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Good for English learners
Thirty-six chapters of about a thousand words each: every chapter is the length of one short story, so nothing you read in a sitting is longer than what you are used to.
Level A2. This is the original text, not a simplified or abridged version, so you read the real classic.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio is around A2 on the CEFR scale. It is a good fit for readers building toward or reading comfortably at that level.
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