For my show and tell today, I am going to tell you about the book I read this week.  I read Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. 

     I think this book is one of my favorite books now.  I wanted to read every single chapter in one day!  (I didn’t, but it was that good!).  This story of Pinocchio is different than the one that you may have heard, because he was a much naughtier boy puppet.  He started out as being a very bad puppet from the beginning.  He got into a lot of mischief.  More than in the other stories.  Poor Geppetto.

     Here is my narration of the last chapter.  If you want to read the story and not have the ending spoiled for you, then you may not want to read this…

 The Last Chapter

     Pinocchio and his papa swam to the surface of the ocean.  There they met the little Tunny who guided them to an island.

     Soon, after a long rest, they saw a small hut, and in the hut they met an old friend, the Talking Cricket.

     But that day Pinocchio heard that the little blue-haired fairy was close to death, so he sent all his money he had (forty cents) to help her.

     The next day he awoke to see he had become a real boy!

     In his pocket he found a little purse that had little words on it that said, “This purse holds the gift that Pinocchio sent to the little fairy with blue hair.”

     He looked in the purse to see, instead of forty pennies he saw forty gold coins!

     His papa told him that bad boys (and puppets) turn into donkeys, but if they learn to do good to others they (the puppets) will become real, trustworthy boys.