Love Pinocchio! Favorite book as a child. Pinocchio also gets turned into a donkey and forced to perform at a circus until he hurts his leg and becomes lame. Then he's sold go a guy who wants to use his hide for a drum and drowns him in the sea!

Lampwick also shows up at the end (as a donkey) and dies.

Honestly the book reads more whimsical than dark. Lots of random shit happens. It's bonkers. Snake with a fire tail Pinocchio being forced to live as a guard dog That time Pinocchio tries to Crack an egg to cook and eat and a chick flies out. The talking cricket that Pinocchio kills comes back twice. Once as a ghost and the other time as a doctor.