The Adventures of Pinocchio unknown because of the many public domain re-releases since 1940). According to Francelia Butler, it remains "the most translated Italian book and, after the Bible, the most widely read". "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is a story about an animated puppet, boys who turn into donkeys, and other fairy tale devices. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary marriage of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name. In the 1850s, Collodi began to have a variety of both fiction
Pinocchio: The Series Fortunately, the Oak Fairy is able to save him by scaring away the army and transforming the boy into a fully human child, though this means she will no longer be able to appear to him. The series was adapted into English in the 1990s by Saban Entertainment under the title Pinocchio: The Series (colloquial also known as "Saban's (The) Adventures of Pinocchio"). This version was shown in the United States on weekday mornings on HBO in 1992. A separate American version was created by Jim Terry ("Force Five"). Titled The Adventures of Pinocchio, it consisted of several episodes edited