Slime for Dinner: A Graphic Novel (Geronimo Stilton #2)

by Geronimo Stilton, Tom Angleberger, Tom Angleberger (Illustrator)

Overview

Praise for Slime for Dinner:"Fresh, funny, and fast-paced. The free-style artwork and anything-goes story will make kids want to write and draw their own books!" -Dav Pilkey

Geronimo recieves a mysterious package. It was a coffin! And it was gift-wrapped!

It was an invitation to a spine-tingling mystery dinner at Cacklefur Castle! Geronimo, Thea, and Trap find spiders, bats, and ... something slimy! Can Geronimo solve the mystery before he is frightened out of his fur? This is an all-new Geronimo Stilton series as interpreted by author, artist, and longtime fan Tom Angleberger, based on the story by Elisabetta Dami.Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338587357
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Series:	Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel , #2
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	183,695
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	GN350L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Geronimo Stilton is the publisher of The Rodent's Gazette, Mouse Island's most famouse newspaper. In his spare time, Mr. Stilton enjoys collecting antique cheese rinds, playing golf, and telling stories to his nephew Benjamin. He lives in New Mouse City, Mouse Island. Visit Geronimo online at www.scholastic.com/geronimostilton.

TOM ANGLEBERGER is an artist-turned-writer, and the creator of the Origami Yoda series. He is also a columnist for the Roanoke Times in Virginia.

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2021

Gr 2–5—Mystery and pranks abound in Angleberger's second graphic novel (after The Sewer Rat Stink) that reimagines the best-selling series about rodent reporter Geronimo Stilton. Geronimo, his cousin Trap, and his sister Thea attend a mystery dinner at Creepella's spooky castle, where guests must decipher a series of gross clues to find a missing golden coffin. Though Geronimo does not want to win the coveted trip to Transratania with Creepella, he works hard to solve the mystery in the hopes of ending the increasingly creepy dinner as soon as possible. The short chapters full of colorful, messy, free-style art keep the narrative flowing. Young readers with a taste for gross-out humor and mischief will enjoy the increasingly disgusting dishes that serve as clues, as well as the different pranks that Creepella's nephews play on Geronimo. VERDICT An amusing read that will appeal the most to "Geronimo Stilton" fans.

School Library Journal

2021-01-27
A missing coffin isn’t the only mystery on Geronimo Stilton’s plate.

Moldy mozzarella! In the wake of a pretend (or perhaps real!) heist, a mystery-themed dinner at Creepella Cacklefur’s castle quickly devolves into a mad rush from one hidden clue to the next. This is punctuated by courses ranging from toad slime and kraken tentacles to mystery giblets on a stick, all dished up by guest chef Boffo Flambé. There are also encounters with werecanaries and a horde of howling werewolf slugs, not to mention moat slime, cave slime, and (perhaps worst of all) sloth snot sorbet for dessert. (Readers will sympathize with our hero’s reluctance to partake, a running gag throughout.) Alert readers will doubtless detect a theme, and Angleberger’s just the one to amplify it with big sequential panels both decked out in loud colors and packed with a rodent cartoon cast that is drawn with manic energy and, often, covered in gooey gloobs. “I had slime for dinner,” Geronimo Stilton laments. “Now slime is having me for dinner!” Based on an episode published in Italy but not in the U.S. and so new even to series fans on this side of the Atlantic, the latest graphic caper from the mild-mannered journalist/sleuth will slide off the shelves whenever a slightly scary tale or, for that matter, a general grossfest is in order.

Get set for gags aplenty…and not just the visual sort. (Graphic mystery. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews