Collodi, Carlo 1826-1890 creator Cramp, Walter S. (Walter Samuel) 1867-1932 text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats Beppo by Carlo Collodi is a children’s fantasy tale written in the late 19th century. Playful and satirical, it follows a mischievous rose-colored monkey whose curiosity about human ways leads him into comic scrapes and moral lessons; the likely topic is a lighthearted adventure that teaches the value of keeping promises and using good sense. The story begins in the forest of Guess It, where Beppo’s pranks escalate from stealing a man’s pipe to teasing a crocodile, who snaps off his beautiful tail. Kidnapped in a sack and rescued by a kind boy named Alfred, Beppo is offered food, clothes, and a place as a valet for a planned voyage, but his vanity and gluttony keep tripping him up. Torn between family and promise, he’s warned by a glowing serpent and soon seized by Dry-throat, chief of assassins, who means to take him to the Fairy with the Blue Hair. Beppo flatters his captor to get supper, then outwits him at an inn by swapping places with a cat that later blinds the villain. Fleeing, he is briefly crowned Emperor of the Monkeys, finds rulership a burden, and escapes again to a house tended by a blue rabbit who reminds him that promises must be kept. Caught once more by the now-blind Dry-throat and forced to perform in a port town, Beppo is finally bought and freed by Alfred, and the two set off together at last on their long-promised journey around the world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2026-03-02 Hendrik Kaiber, Carol Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1907 Adventure stories Monkeys -- Juvenile fiction PZ Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1907 https://archive.org/details/beppo00coll https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78089 https://archive.org/details/beppo00coll https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78089 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134817.0 78089