The backstory of this book is as follows: I suggested that my nine-year-old daughter read “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” but she made such eyes full of horror and disgust that it became clear to me that Tolstoy’s “Pinocchio” is a complete flop for an anime-watching second-grader. That’s exactly when the idea was born to revive this great work.
“Pinocchio-2” is a fairy tale for the whole family. A remake of the famous and popular in the past “Pinocchio” by Aleksei Tolstoy (because the author oriented himself on it, not on the Italian original) has been given new life and is now beginning its march toward today’s advanced reader. You’ll get a lot of fun reading this cheerful—and in places rather harsh and tough—adventure fairy tale.