A carpenter's log that cries out when the plane touches it, an old man carving a puppet by candlelight, and a talking cricket nobody wants to hear.
Retold for sleep from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, first published in 1883 and long out of copyright. The story is Collodi's; every sentence here is our own.
Pinocchio — The Piece of Wood That Laughed is a sleep story from Salūs — a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.