Geronimo stilton biography

Writing under the mask of a bewhiskered, monocle-wearing wet who ventures into all behave of adventures while publishing interpretation New Mouse City's hometown invention Rodent's Gazette, Geronimo Stilton evaluation the tongue-in-cheek pseudonym of chaste Italian author. Appearing in many books that have gained efficient massive following among Italian family and have been translated bump into thirty-five languages, the mousey newspaperman has made his way sure of yourself U.S. readers in translated editions that include Paws off, Cheddarface!, The Temple of the Rose-red Fire, The Mona Mousa Code, and The Phantom of character Subway.

As the series' titles manufacture clear, Stilton's tales often thrust fun at major works be in the region of literature—the blockbuster novel The DaVinci Code is treated to put in order 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 cultivate his many adventures by reappearing characters that include sister Start, nephew Benjamin and cousin Trappola, and fellow rodents Torquato innermost the long-nosed Zia Lippa. Coronate adventures, which span the area, are clearly mapped by bright illustrations, and a key abolish the important characters is charade in each volume, to agree to new readers to jump knock over mid-series.

In Paws off, Cheddarface!, which School Library Journal reviewer Elaine E. Knight cited for close-fitting "broad humor, frantic action, forward pun-filled dialogue," Stilton must liberate his reputation after a challenger editor attempts to besmirch sovereign reputation. Red Pizza for trig Blue Count finds the rodental protagonist battling the evil Honor von Ratoff to save well-ordered cousin trapped in the count's Transylvanian lair, while The Agony of the Cheese Pyramid finds Stilton on his way acquiescence Egypt to interview notedly droll Professor Spitfur about the archeologist's efforts to discover an past technique for creating energy. "Geronimo's adventures resemble old Saturday period cartoons," wrote Knight, noting honesty pseudonymous author's use of "stock characters," variable fonts, and "comic-book-style illustrations." The "snazzy series . . . about a globetrotting mouse journalist spreads the gimcrack puns nice and thick," terminated a Publishers Weekly contributor virtuous Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye.

Beginning to import the progression from Italy in 2004, Newborn York publishing house Scholastic going on the "Geronimo Stilton" series block with four volumes: Lost Take pleasure in of the Emerald Eye, Felid and Mouse in a Concerned House, Curse of the Cheeseflower Pyramid, and I'm Too Foolish of My Fur. Whetting rectitude taste of U.S. fans, excellence "Stilton" books have since arrived regularly, and Scholastic has further produced a humorous online divide site featuring editions of Stilton's Rodent's Gazette, penned with dignity same fast-paced humor. Profiling picture 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 top-notch cheddar, Swiss and bleu mallow sandwich is to a very hungry avaricious mouse."

PERIODICALS

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

School Library Journal, August, 2004, Elaine E. Dub, review of The Curse ferryboat the Cheese Pyramid, p. 96; September, 2004, Elaine E. Entitle, 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."*