Initial research on the story of pinocchio

Pinocchio was written by an Italian writer, Carlo Collodi and was first published July 7th 1881 in lids magazine,"Giornale per bambini", under the title-"Story of a puppet".It was published in chapters one a week but had to be stopped at chapter 15 when Pinocchio was hung from a branch to die,subject matter thought not suitable for children.However at the time Collodi was writing the story it wasn't intended for children.In 1882 the story returned titled-"The Adventures of Pinocchio",after the charcter blue fairy was introduced to rescue Pinocchio and become a mothering figure in the story, eventually turning him into a real boy.

The story of Pinocchio isn't a typical fairy tala as it contains more serious facts of everyday life e.g. the need for food, shelter and education,making the story unique in it's time being the first to introduce more adult issues into a childrens story and in 19th centuary Italy childrens literacy in general was new making it modern in style and content.

I was suprised when I read "The Adventures of Pinocchio" to find how much of the story is ommited from the children picture book versions that I have read.The story is quite strange in many ways with Pinocchio finding himself in and out of jail and getting himself into many strange and risky situations like almost being mistaken for a fish and fried by a sea monster.So I guess the first thing that strikes me is how illustrators decide which parts of the story to omit.How much of it is their choice and how much is down to the publisher?

Another thing that strikes me about the orginal story is how much of the story is altered for childrens literature for example that Pinocchio actually kills the cricket in the orginal.So another thought is how much of the story could I keep the same without scaring or confusing people?

After reading Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio" and from the examples of children's picture books that I've looked at so far,what I've found,considering the content of the story, is that the style of illustration is abit too cutsey,especially considering alot of the story is about Pinocchio getting himself in to trouble and dangerous situations.In particular the character of Pinocchio who is a disobidient, cheeky disrespectful rebel comes across too nice and innocent.These are all intial things that I would like to research more.