Lost Treasure Of The Emerald Eye (2004) - Plot & Excerpts
This is not a review, but an observation and a question.Something I don't really understand so I would enjoy hearing people's views on is how people buy books for children from the point of view of the gender of the book's main subject as illustrated on the cover. At the moment Geronimo Stilton is the hot book for 8-10 year olds. Both boys and girls rush up to the display and look for the ones they haven't read. Mothers, on their own, will buy Geronimo Stilton's for both their sons and daughters. In my experience, fathers rarely buy books for their daughters unless they are with the little girl who will then choose her own book. However, when it comes to the companion range of books about Geronimo's sister, Thea, it is a completely different story. The girls will equally select a Thea Stilton book. They show no preference for Geronimo or Thea, they are just looking for one they haven't read and that has an appealing cover and title. But little boys will not buy a Thea Stilton book. They don't even want to look at them and if I show them, they are almost uniformly disgusted because it is a 'girl's book'. It isn't the subject matter, Geronimo is a journalist and editor, Thea is a detective, both are action stories. It is enough that the protagonist is a female to cause disgust among the boys and make the mothers reject Thea Stilton for their sons. This gender bias runs across the entire age range of books. If the cover has a boy on it, both sexes will read it. If it has a girl, only girls. Tom Sawyer, the Jungle Book and Alfie are bought for both sexes. The Madeleine books, Pippi Longstocking and Heidi only for girls.There are exceptions. Boys will not select Roald Dahl's Matilda but mothers might buy it for them if they like Roald Dahl books. The Secret Garden gets bought for boys only if it is on a school reading list. Harriet the Spy and the Ramona books are for girls. If a book is about a fairy tale and has not been made into a cartoon (yet) by Disney, like Little Red Riding Hood, it will be bought for both. Once it has become Disneyfied, it acquires the same gender bias.There is absolute horror at the idea that a boy would be bought Nancy Drew books, but the Hardy books are read by both boys and girls. Would Harry Potter have been so succesful if the protagonist had been Holly Potter?A note to authors of children's books: no matter what the story is about, if it is directed at both boys and girls, then make sure the title and the cover do not contain any girlie elements otherwise you're dead in the water!
Book: Geronimo StiltonText by: Edizioni Piemme aka Geronimo StiltonFirst to Sixth Grade ReadersThis link will take you to the US Rodent's Gazette web page, which has games and activities.http://www.scholastic.com/titles/gero...This is a wonderful series. It was started in Italy and became so popular it is now written in 35 languages. I love love love this series. The books are based on a mouse world. The narrator is Geronimo Stilton, a learned and brainy mouse: editor of The Rodent's Gazette. Other characters are Thea Stilton, Geronimo's sister and special correspondent for the newspaper.Trap Stilton, Geronimo's cousin and a store owner. Benjamin Stilton, Geronimo's favorite cousin.The books are funny and adventurous. The books start off fast and keep you reading. The books are colorful, full of cool maps and activities that are fun to do with your child. It will take a few days to finish the story but well worth the read. Even my 4 year old likes to look at the books and that's good enough for me!
What do You think about Lost Treasure Of The Emerald Eye (2004)?
You can read this and other reviews at Things I Find While ShelvingI read this book because I wanted to determine if it was a good one to get for the kids in my life. I’m not a parent, but I have friends with kids and when I went to buy one of them a birthday present I thought about getting this, but I’d never read it so I didn’t know if it was a good one or not.So I decided to read it.And I’m glad I did. It’s a fun adventure, with sailing and treasure hunting and family squabbles and families getting on - omg Thea and Geronimo’s relationship is so cute. They’re such siblings!The other thing I really like about this book is it’s very visually interesting. There are bolded words and words in different colors and pictures on every page, so even if your reader isn’t quite far enough to be engrossed by words alone, they’ll love looking at the images while you read to them.
—Wart *Rainbows, beauty, and death* Hill
Geronimo Stilton is a series of books about a mouse. He is a mouse who wears a suit and gets into all kinds of situations and travels all over. This is the first book and it starts out with Geronimo Stilton's sister Thea dragging him off on an adventure. This book is a great book for kids who don't like to read. The writing is very unique and has tons of sized fonts and different styled fonts. Reading the books is just fun because of the way the writing is set up. I would have these in my classroom to give to kids who need to make reading fun. Stilton, Geronimo. Lost treasure of the emerald eye. (2004). New York: Scholastic.
—Lauren Richards
We normally enjoy Geronimo Stilton books but OH MY! WHAT HAPPENED????? REALLY???? I tried, and tried to get into this one. Reading it out loud to my special needs teen age so whom we usually really enjoy reading about his adventures.... but this book had no storyline, to many descriptions and didn't go anywhere! Although they were on a boat trying to go somewhere... but I lost my son after the first few chapters but kept reading thinking it would get better but then when it lost me I just had to give in after about 3/4 of the way in. So no clue what the story was really suppose to be or if they found the treasure that Geronimo's sister was looking for or what... Story was just filled with Geronimo's family calling him various names and he getting upset and screaming his real name at them and description after description of things around them... ugh! If you read this one and don't like it (like us) don't judge them all by this book alone...usually this series of books is really good. This apparently is book #1 of the series but this series of books you don't have to read in order to know who people are or what is going on that's the greatness of these books. This was the 5th book my son and I have read and usually I rate them 3 or 4 stars... so don't know if the author just hadn't 'found' himself with this story or what... but the others (or at least the other four I've read thus far) are MUCH better and fun to read.
—Rosa Cline
