The Secret of Whale Island (Thea Stilton Graphic Novels Series #1)

by Thea Stilton, Nanette Cooper-McGuinness (Translator)

Overview

Geronimo isn't the only world-famous adventuring journalist from New Mouse City; introducing his fabulous sister, Thea!

The Thea Sisters are five fun, lively students at Ratford College on Whale Island, who want to be real, live journalists just like their hero, Thea Stilton. Between classes and friendships, love and small fits of jealousy, they're finding college life is really exciting! In "The Secret of Whale Island," it's the start of the new school year and the students have arrived at Ratford College. Every year at this time, the whales move off the coast of Whale Island, but this time, a savage killer whale threatens the peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597074032
Publisher:	Papercutz
Publication date:	04/30/2013
Series:	Thea Stilton Graphic Novels Series , #1
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Thea Stilton was born in New Mouse City, Mouse Island. She is a special correspondent for The Rodent's Gazette, Mouse Island's most famouse newspaper, which is edited by her famouse brother, Geronimo Stilton. A graduate of the prestigious Mouseford Academy, Ms. Stilton is a visiting professor of journalism at Mouseford today. She is also the author of numerous mystery novels based on the exciting lives of her friends and former students, the Thea Sisters. In her spare time, Ms. Stilton loves to travel and go on fabumouse adventures.

Editorial Reviews

The first book in the graphic-novel spinoff of the Thea Stilton chapter books, themselves spinoffs of the Geronimo Stilton franchise. It's a new school year at Whale Island's Mouseford Academy for the Thea Sisters (not actual siblings but a group of friends centered around Thea Stilton). Written for fans of the Thea Stilton series, the book assumes familiarity with the characters and skips introductions. Two traditions mark the start of a new year--the school dance, which yields a subplot about the girls trying to find dates, and the arrival of whales at the island. But this year, a whale has broken the pattern by arriving early, swimming without the other whales and even attacking fishing boats. It's up to the Thea Sisters to figure out why the whale is acting strangely and to solve the orca's problem. The problem is connected to a celebrity cosmetics entrepreneur, a special guest to the school on account of her generous donation and her children's enrollment as new students. The celebrity has an illegal, secret hobby--collecting sea life. Her hobby leads to a couple of footnotes with ocean-animal facts, though the story is more concerned with entertainment than education. The resolution comes far too easily in a short plot that is lacking in obstacles. Plot limitations notwithstanding, the colorful characters' revealing body language and expressive faces keep even simple conversation scenes' illustrations dynamic. For Stilton readers who prioritize interpersonal relationships and friendship over mysteries and action. (Graphic fantasy. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews