Zolotoy klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino

"Kogda ya byl malen'kiy, - ochen', ochen' davno, - ya chital odnu knizhku: ona nazyvalas' "Pinokkio, ili Pohozhdeniya derevyannoy kukly" (derevyannaya kukla po-ital'yanski - Buratino). Ya chasto rasskazyval moim tovarischam, devochkam i mal'chikam, zanimatel'nye priklyucheniya Buratino. No tak kak knizhka poteryalas', to ya rasskazyval kazhdyy raz po-raznomu, vydumyval takie pohozhdeniya, kakih v knige sovsem i ne bylo. Teper', cherez mnogo-mnogo let, ya pripomnil moego starogo druga Buratino i nadumal rasskazat' vam, devochki i mal'chiki, neobychaynuyu istoriyu pro etogo derevyannogo chelovechka". Aleksey Tolstoy