Pinocchio was a wooden puppet brought to life by a fairy.
Geppetto his maker loved him and wanted him to go to school.
But Pinocchio found it easy to tell lies when he was in trouble.
When he skipped school he lied about where he had been.
The fairy's magic made his nose grow longer with every lie.
Each lie needed another lie and then another to hide it.
Lies made things worse.

Pinocchio was a wooden puppet who had been given the gift of life by a kind fairy.
Geppetto his maker loved him completely and wanted him to go to school and learn.
But Pinocchio found it very easy and very tempting to tell lies when he was in trouble.
When he skipped school he lied about where he had been and felt quite proud of himself.
But the fairy's magic made his nose grow longer with every single lie he told to her.
And each lie required another lie to cover it and then another to cover that one too.
The lies grew into a tangle that became far worse than the original small mistake had been.
Lies made things worse.

Pinocchio was originally a wooden puppet who had been given the extraordinary gift of life by a kind blue-haired fairy who happened to live nearby.
Geppetto, the old carpenter who had carved him, loved him completely and wanted him to attend school like any normal human child would do.
But Pinocchio quickly discovered something that made his young life far easier in the short term than Geppetto would have wanted — he found lying remarkably easy.
When he skipped school to watch the puppet show, he lied about where he had been, and at first he felt quite proud of himself for having escaped detection so cleanly.
But the fairy's particular magic made his wooden nose grow a little bit longer with every single lie he told within her hearing, which should have been a warning.
Each lie, moreover, required another lie to cover it, and then a third lie to cover the second, and soon he was maintaining an entire secondary life made of untruths.
The tangle of lies quickly grew into something far larger and far worse than the original small mistake had ever been on its own.
A small dishonesty had become a large one, and a large one had become a crisis he could no longer control with his limited resources.
Lies made things worse.