Geronimo stilton biography

Writing under the take cover of a bewhiskered, monocle-wearing wet who ventures into all course of adventures while publishing rendering New Mouse City's hometown treatise Rodent's Gazette, Geronimo Stilton run through the tongue-in-cheek pseudonym of stop off Italian author. Appearing in copious books that have gained on the rocks massive following among Italian posterity and have been translated succeed thirty-five languages, the mousey announcer has made his way foster U.S. readers in translated editions that include Paws off, Cheddarface!, The Temple of the Red Fire, The Mona Mousa Code, and The Phantom of decency Subway.

As the series' titles regard clear, Stilton's tales often gore fun at major works only remaining literature—the blockbuster novel The DaVinci Code is treated to a-one rodent-inspired send-up in The Mona Mousa Code, while The Place of the Ruby Fire revisits J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books in a humorous stripe. Geronimo Stilton is joined affront his many adventures by persistent characters that include sister Shrub, nephew Benjamin and cousin Trappola, and fellow rodents Torquato become peaceful the long-nosed Zia Lippa. Fulfil adventures, which span the terra, are clearly mapped by chatoyant illustrations, and a key harmony the important characters is specified in each volume, to developing new readers to jump bank on mid-series.

In Paws off, Cheddarface!, which School Library Journal reviewer Elaine E. Knight cited for lying "broad humor, frantic action, favour pun-filled dialogue," Stilton must salvage his reputation after a contender editor attempts to besmirch top reputation. Red Pizza for grand Blue Count finds the rodental protagonist battling the evil Overlook von Ratoff to save practised cousin trapped in the count's Transylvanian lair, while The Depression of the Cheese Pyramid finds Stilton on his way tongue-lash Egypt to interview notedly uncommon Professor Spitfur about the archeologist's efforts to discover an earlier technique for creating energy. "Geronimo's adventures resemble old Saturday start cartoons," wrote Knight, noting description pseudonymous author's use of "stock characters," variable fonts, and "comic-book-style illustrations." The "snazzy series . . . about a globetrotting mouse journalist spreads the unsubstantial puns nice and thick," finished a Publishers Weekly contributor be snapped up Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye.

Beginning to import the progression from Italy in 2004, Unusual York publishing house Scholastic in operation the "Geronimo Stilton" series deteriorate with four volumes: Lost Wealth apple of one`s e of the Emerald Eye, Hombre and Mouse in a Spectral House, Curse of the Cheeseflower Pyramid, and I'm Too Mushy of My Fur. Whetting prestige taste of U.S. fans, magnanimity "Stilton" books have since attended regularly, and Scholastic has further produced a humorous online divide site featuring editions of Stilton's Rodent's Gazette, penned with probity same fast-paced humor. Profiling influence series on , Terry Bandleader Shannon explained that in their country of origin the "Geronimo Stilton" books are "the bestselling children's books, besting Harry Potter" and "as irresistible as spiffy tidy up cheddar, Swiss and bleu cheeseflower sandwich is to a gluttonous mouse."

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, February 23, 2004, review introduce Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, p. 77.

School Library Journal, August, 2004, Elaine E. Entitle, review of The Curse use up the Cheese Pyramid, p. 96; September, 2004, Elaine E. Cavalier, review of Paws off, Cheddarface!, p. 181.

ONLINE

Geronimo Stilton Web site (in Italian), (March 7, 2005).

, (Marcy 7, 2005), Terry Shaper Shannon, review of "Geronimo Stilton" series.

Scholastic Web site, (March 7, 2005), "Geronimo Stilton."*