Pinocchio

Italian author Carlo Collodi's enduring children's classic, The Adventures of Pinocchio, begins in a workshop in Tuscany. Geppetto is a poor puppeteer struggling to carve a living out of wood. When he's gifted a special piece of timber, the lonely craftsman decides to make a marionette to be his son. He names him Pinocchio. Yet Geppetto's puppet goes rogue as soon as he's created, laughing in the old man's face and acting just like a mischievous human child. Plus, when he tells a lie, his nose grows comically long.

As soon as he can, Geppetto's troublesome puppet makes a hasty getaway, and the old woodcarver is arrested trying to catch him. Left to his own devices, Pinocchio soon falls in with a bad crowd. He meets a crafty Fox and Cat, who plot to rob him of five gold pieces that were meant for Geppetto. Pinocchio allows himself to be led astray, but when his father is swallowed by the Terrible Shark, he must finally prove he has what it takes to become a real-life boy: loyalty, honesty, and bravery.