The 19th-century Italian author, who wrote the book that inspired the Disney ... In Italy, a Catholic country, the joke is that Pinocchio is “two in one,” just as God is “three in one.” ...

The original book is scarier still. As del Toro says, there have been 60-odd Pinocchio films, and "even before I saw the Disney film I saw him in colouring books and picture books". But the novel ...

But, for some reason, “Pinocchio” does. Perhaps the answer lies not in any one scene but in the movie’s over-all bleakness. Robin Allan, in his beautiful book “Walt Disney and Europe ...

But despite the wooden boy’s recent, Oscar-winning popularity, Pinocchio has always influenced Mignola’s oeuvre. “This is a book I’ve loved since I read it when I was a young teenager ...

The young heroes of Carlo Collodi's classic fantasy Pinocchio and Roald Dahl's 1988 ... I looked over every so often to find her laughing at the jokes, covering her eyes at the scary parts and ...