In the second half of the book, the maternal figure of the Blue-haired Fairy is the dominant character, versus the paternal figure of Geppetto in the first part.Children's literature was a new idea in Collodi's time, an innovation in the 19th century.

At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16-36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair (or 'Blue Fairy', as the Disney version names her) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story more suitable for children. The Adventures of Pinocchio were serialized in the paper in 1881-2, and then published in 1883 with huge success.In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death: hanged for his innumerable faults, at the end of Chapter 15.

The editor did, and the children loved it. In 1881, he sent a short episode in the life of a wooden puppet to a friend who edited a newspaper in Rome, wondering whether the editor would be interested in publishing this 'bit of foolishness' in his children's section. Once, he translated some French fairy-tales so well that he was asked whether he would like to write some of his own. 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 and non-fiction books published. The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. It was a unique literary marriage of genres for its time. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. The Adventures of Pinocchio is thus not a cautionary tale about lying but an unusually timely fable for our increasingly authoritarian timesa story about the. The Adventures of Pinocchio is a story about an animated puppet, boys who turn into donkeys and other fairy tale devices.

Original pinocchio story