Lets Start The Week With A Quiz,

an easy one,

 what is the title of the book that these illustrations come from? a few clues, the book, according to extensive research done by the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi in late 1990s and based on UNESCO sources, has been adapted in over 260 languages worldwide,

 that makes it the most translated non-religious book in the world, and one of the best-selling books ever published, according to Francelia Butler, it remains "the most widely read book in the world after the Bible",

 the book was written in the 1880s, and as you can guess has been reprinted many times,

during his adventures he has many mishaps, such as having his feet burned off when he falls asleep to near an open fire, from the book, "Then he fell asleep. And while he slept, his feet, which were wooden, caught fire, and little by little they burned away." and the answer is, if you have not already guessed,

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"The Adventures of Pinocchio," by author Carlo Collodi and illustrator Roberto Innocenti, this is the 2005 edition published by The Creative Company, but be warned, this is not the Disney sanitised version, Collodi's Pinocchio encounters assassins who hang him (top image) when they are unable to stab his wooden body with their "long, horrid" knives (he's rescued by a blue fairy who lives in the distant house), and I definitely do not remember in the Disney version Pinocchio biting off the hand of one of the assassins who attack him, he does however meet a talking cricket, but after being reprimanded for his behaviour, he grabs a wooden mallet and squishes the cricket, so much for Jiminy Cricket then! and no I am not on commission, I just thought the illustrations were so good, as indeed is the original story.