by Glen L. Bledsoe
There is a little known unfinished first draft manuscript of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi in which Geppetto is turned into a wooden puppet by a wicked witch. Pinocchio, his flesh and blood son, spends endless adventures trying to find and free him. The novel was never completed (or translated into English). Eventually Carlo decided to reverse roles. Probably a good idea. Disney would have had a tough time marketing an old man marionette as a lovable cartoon character. Guillermo del Toro would have made a masterpiece of it, though.
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