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This is the chapter's first rescue moment — the Blue-Haired Baby is revealed to be a true Fairy when a great Falcon comes at her signal and bows to her. Copying it teaches you how a writer turns a sad scene into a hopeful one in a single page. The passage contains the vocabulary words wings, Falcon, and Fairy.
At this signal the beating of wings was heard and a great Falcon came and placed himself on the window sill. "What do you command, my gracious Fairy?" said the Falcon, lowering his beak in a bow of re...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the chapter back in your own words in five or six sentences. Begin with the Blue-Haired Baby seeing Pinocchio hanging from the Grand Oak. End with Pinocchio crying under the covers when the Talking Cricket calls him a good-for-nothing.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story shows you that the Blue-Haired Baby is not a regular child? How can you tell she has special powers, and what does the Falcon's bow tell us about who she really is?
- The carriage that picks up Pinocchio is pulled by one hundred pairs of white mice and driven by a Bearded Dog in fancy clothes. What in the chapter makes this scene feel like a fairy tale? How do you know the writer wants us to be a little bit amazed and a little bit amused at the same time?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
a small magical being in stories who can do special things people cannot
Item 2
a strong, fast bird with sharp eyes and a hooked beak, often used to carry messages in old stories
Item 3
the parts of a bird, bat, or insect that move up and down to help it fly
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