Isabelle came home from the library with a book in a companion series about Thea Stilton, so I asked her about the original series featuring Geronimo Stilton. They looked and sounded like something that might interest Sebastien, so we gave it a shot. The short chapters were perfect for him - me reading aloud to him since he can't read yet - and he liked it!
The series is about anthropomorphized mice who live not in the real world as we know it, but in an imaginary mouse world. I think I am bothered when anthropomorphized animals live in a human world, but anthropomorphized animals living in their own world is fine. This book - the first of many in the series - was certainly entertaining. It felt like a cartoon. Small illustrations were scattered about, and a few words on every page were printed in different fonts, sizes, and colors, which made for fun reading.
The story is a light-hearted adventure, and it doesn't exactly tackle any issues. Still, there's a sense that Geronimo Stilton is "keeping it real". For example, he gets annoyed when other people don't call him by his real name, and he begrudgingly remains friends with his cousin Trap, who generally proves himself useful even though he is annoying.
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