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Geronimo Stilton...

2/26/2010

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Here’s a 'just discovered' series by the readers at our home:
Geronimo Stilton
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This chapter book series features a newspaper-editor mouse who has world-wide adventures. A couple things that stand out about this series include:

* The text often features fonts that correspond with a word’s meaning. Hot is therefore printed as HOT with steam rising from each letter.The word box may be printed as BOX. Scary would be scary, indeed. (These are great vocab clues and convey added meaning.)

 * Each book includes a variety of illustrations (often in the margins of the pages) and often includes a map of the story-setting to help young readers imagine the mentioned locations. (These items give readers all the context clues of picture books while maintaining the big-kid feel of chapter books that students begin to crave in second and third grade.)

* The author works in every mouse, rodent, rat, and cheese pun that he can possibly imagine. (This humor goes over big with the 8 year-old set and guarantees a good eye roll from Mom and Dad.)  :)


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