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Pinocchio

The Origin Story

Alessandro Sanna illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Enchanted Lion Books

Published:8th Sep '16

Should be back in stock very soon

Pinocchio cover

Advance review copies will be sent to key store buyers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers. Special poster and Enchanted Lion catalog promotional mailing to stores. The book will be promoted using various forms of social media including Facebook, Twitter, and instagram.

Have you ever wondered where the Pinocchio story really begins? This is the untold origin story behind the beloved wooden boy.Told as a story of cosmic beginnings, this version of Pinocchio is about the formative energy and magic that reside in the wood that becomes the boy. This version is also about life on the molecular level and what it means to think about our composition as human beings from the point of view of energy and cosmic matter. Born in 1975, Alessandro Sanna is one of Italy's leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition for his work, which has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and the New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular author and has received many awards. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy.

"Alternating between panels and full- and double-page scenes whose bright, bleeding colors evoke tie-dyed fabrics, Sanna shows the proto-Pinocchio gathering companions and confronting a forest of trees and fire, a ravenous snake, and an enormous shark, before growing into a tree. It's a haunting and wholly original perspective on Collodi's classic that suggests that Pinocchio's mischievous spirit draws from a primordial, even immortal, source of energy." -- STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly "In the mostly wordless pages of " Pinocchio: The Origin Story" (Enchanted Lion, 48 pages, $19.95), exquisite paintings by the Italian watercolorist Alessandro Sanna depict a series of mystical events that produced the bit of wood that the woodcarver Geppetto would eventually fashion into a marionette--which became a real boy--in Carlo Collodi's 1883 story "Pinocchio." [...] Powerful and strange, this picture book invites contemplation..." -- Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal

ISBN: 9781592701919

Dimensions: 223mm x 310mm x 12mm

Weight: 608g

48 pages