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| ProdID: 7475 - Geronimo Stilton #65: Bollywood BurglaryAuthor:Geronimo Stilton | Product Score: 9.1 |
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My detective friend Hercule Poirat and I were headed to India. A Bollywood star we're friends with had received a valuable ruby and wanted us to help her protect it ... which meant that I ended up acting in the movie she was filming! Rancid ricotta - I'm a terrible actor! Even worse, just when we least expected it, the ruby was stolen. Could we find the thief? |
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I Love Geronimo Stilton. These books are so fun and engaging, with just the right amount of pictures vs words to captivate a large auidiance. My four year old girl loves the action and adventure, as does my nine year old boy. It is a great size for little hands, not too many pages. Easy enough for beginner readers, with someone to guide them and help sound out words, and more advanced readers to read to themselves. We bought a whole set of them, which gives us about a year of nightime stories. Bollywood Burglary - Geronimo Stilton offers to deliver the same drama and adventure as the other books and does not dissapoint. Geronimo was sent to India to protect a Ruby given to his freind, but ends up staring in a movie while there. I think it is great value for money, but buying as a set is a more afordable way to do it and also reduces the cover or pages getting creased having a boxset to put it in. This way it staying like new for many families when your children have outgrown it, or reselling. The only downside for me is that some of the names of characters names where hard to pronouce, and my kids found it hard to move on to next part untill we all agreed on the pronunciation of the names. |
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My boys love reading which is great as I think that reading is really important. They have discovered Geronimo Stilton and are rather determined to get, by any means necessary, all the books in the series. I went to read the book for the review and I had to ask my boys where the book had vanished to as it wasn't with my other review goods. They were that excited about the book that they had put it with the other books we already have. I read this book in under an hour but I know it would take my boys a bit longer. I really like how there are explanations for the words that the reader might not know and how colourful and imaginative the illustrations are. I have gotten used to the different fonts and just read it as if the words were all just boring black but I know from listening to my boys discuss what they love about Geronimo is that the words aren't just boring black and that the good guy (Geronimo) and the bad guys are clear to see. Another good point for the book is that you can read this as a stand alone book as the story is complete so you don't have to read the books in a particular order and if you don't want to read the other books then this story still makes sense. As usual this book engages the young reader and encourages them to learn while having fun and lets be honest that is the best way to learn things. |
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The more I read of the Geronimo Stilton books, the more I realise how clever they are. Mr Seven is still addicted to the series but has now been joined by his sister so we take turns reading aloud so she can follow the story too. Although they are lots of fun and latch on to a child's imagination, they also contain educational material which the young reader absorbs without really trying. In this book, the story is set in India - it unfolds against the backdrop of the Indian film industry and mock movie posters proclaim the wonderful adventures to be presented in the latest film. The book is every bit as colourful as a Bollywood production, enchanting children from all cultures with its bright, larger than life drawings and vibrant fonts. But this is not just a creatively presented adventure story for young children. While reading, they are shown a full colour political map of the Indian sub-continent with an accompanying page of interesting facts - some of which were as new to me as they were to the children. Another two-page spread presents all the people who are charged with creating a film, from the hair stylist to the casting director to the props manager. I teach Drama myself so I was able to talk at length about the roles these people play. It is interesting to watch a child's reaction when he learns that the actors are not the only important people in a film company. Miss Five loved the chapter entitled "Cream for the Calluses" because it described a situation where everything went wrong, and poor Geronimo ended up washing himself with toothpaste and brushing his teeth with shampoo. She made a similar mistake not so long ago herself so it was good to know that she was not the only one to get her toiletries mixed up. Some of the film scenes were shot in sites that are famous all over the world - Agra (home of the Taj Mahal), Varanasi (on the banks of the Ganges), and several others. Each of these sites was depicted in a clever line drawing which was finished in muted shades rather than the explosive colours of the rest of the book. I thought this was a nice touch, and Mr Seven said he thought the colours had changed because they were "old places". I think he meant "historic places", but his comment did show that he had been aware of the difference in style on these pages. Our reading session ended the same way that it always does, with Mr Seven taking himself off to bed, book in hand, ready to re-read it on his own! We are all looking forward to the next in the series! |
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| Printed at 10:56:59am on Wednesday 24th April 2024 |
