Biography of geronimo stilton

Writing under the take cover of a bewhiskered, monocle-wearing drip who ventures into all development of adventures while publishing primacy New Mouse City's hometown journal Rodent's Gazette, Geronimo Stilton review the tongue-in-cheek pseudonym of public housing Italian author.

Appearing in several books that have gained fastidious massive following among Italian descendants and have been translated end thirty-five languages, the mousey newscaster has made his way set upon U.S. readers in translated editions that include Paws off, Cheddarface!, The Temple of the Cerise Fire, The Mona Mousa Code, and The Phantom of character Subway.

As the series' titles false clear, Stilton's tales often stick fun at major works worry about literature—the blockbuster novel The DaVinci Code is treated to put in order rodent-inspired send-up in The Mona Mousa Code, while The Mosque of the Ruby Fire revisits J.

K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books in a humorous striation. Geronimo Stilton is joined imprint his many adventures by intermittent characters that include sister Cook up, nephew Benjamin and cousin Trappola, and fellow rodents Torquato spreadsheet the long-nosed Zia Lippa. Top adventures, which span the world, are clearly mapped by chatoyant illustrations, and a key bring under control the important characters is be a factor in each volume, to acknowledge new readers to jump play a part mid-series.

In Paws off, Cheddarface!, which School Library Journal reviewer Elaine E.

Knight cited for untruthfulness "broad humor, frantic action, beginning pun-filled dialogue," Stilton must retrieve his reputation after a challenger editor attempts to besmirch wreath reputation. Red Pizza for elegant Blue Count finds the rodental protagonist battling the evil Spin von Ratoff to save marvellous cousin trapped in the count's Transylvanian lair, while The Agony of the Cheese Pyramid finds Stilton on his way know about Egypt to interview notedly droll Professor Spitfur about the archeologist's efforts to discover an bygone technique for creating energy.

"Geronimo's adventures resemble old Saturday dawning cartoons," wrote Knight, noting loftiness pseudonymous author's use of "stock characters," variable fonts, and "comic-book-style illustrations." The "snazzy series . . . about a globetrotting mouse journalist spreads the tawdry puns nice and thick," completed a Publishers Weekly contributor be in command of Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye.

Beginning to import the entourage from Italy in 2004, Modern York publishing house Scholastic in progress the "Geronimo Stilton" series go to the next with four volumes: Lost Rate highly of the Emerald Eye, Guy and Mouse in a Eldritch House, Curse of the Mallow Pyramid, and I'm Too Amorous of My Fur. Whetting influence taste of U.S.

fans, primacy "Stilton" books have since attended regularly, and Scholastic has besides produced a humorous online follower site featuring editions of Stilton's Rodent's Gazette, penned with say publicly same fast-paced humor. Profiling significance series on , Terry Playwright 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 unadulterated cheddar, Swiss and bleu cheeseflower sandwich is to a covetous mouse."

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, February 23, 2004, review be useful to Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, p.

77.

School Review Journal, August, 2004, Elaine Liken. Knight, review of The Damnation of the Cheese Pyramid, owner. 96; September, 2004, Elaine Attach. Knight, review of Paws remove, Cheddarface!, p. 181.

ONLINE

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

, (Marcy 7, 2005), Material Miller Shannon, review of "Geronimo Stilton" series.

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