The Karate Mouse

Geronimo Stilton #40

by Geronimo Stilton

Enter the world of Geronimo Stilton, where another funny, cheesy adventure is always right around the corner. Each book is fast-paced with lively art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love. Geronimo Stilton gets caught up in the World Karate Championships, thanks to the efforts of Bruce Hyena and Piccolo Tao, Bruce's super-sporty cousin. Geronimo only has a week to become real champion material! Will Geronimo manage to overcome his fears in order to win the competition?

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Chapter Books, Middle Grade, Mystery

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

A pseudonym of Elisabetta Dami, see also Tea Stilton.

Elisabetta Dami is an Italian author that currently resides in Italy. She is the author of the Geronimo Stilton series, a bestselling childrens book. She enjoys traveling the world seeking ideas for her series. She writes under a pseudonym of Geronimo Stilton. She is also a co-owner of Italian based publishing company Edizioni Piemme.

Reviews

[Tim The Enchanter · Rating 4 out of 5]

After seeing all of my 8 year old daughter's "Thea Stilton" my four year old was excited to learn that there were books about a boy mouse. I read this to my son over the course of several nights. While much of the book is over the head (and attention span) of a four year old, he found the majority of it to be quite amusing.

I generally do not fault children's books for their plots. In this one, Geronimo Stilton, a self-proclaimed "bookmouse", is secreted away by two friends and, without this knowledge, entered into the world karate championship. Our course, he had no previous experience and only had one week to master the discipline. Pretty silly stuff but the silliness made it all the more enjoyable.

My grade 3 daughter enjoys the female counterpart stories and with some dumbing down, younger kids can enjoy the unlikely adventures of Geronimo Stilton.

[Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this, number 40 of the series, Geronimo Stilton’s adventurous friends blindfold him and fly him off to Japan to learn Karate. After a mere 7 days he fights in the world championships! Geronimo proves that if we try really hard and put our mind to something anything is possible.

However after Geronimo finishes his last fight the book moves to deal with a serious issue in sport, performance enhancing substances. Even though it is an excellent idea to teach children that cheating is wrong and has serious consequences, I don’t think this topic gels well with the rest of the book. There are a lot of positives to take from the book though. For example, on every page the font and colour of several specific words is changed. In general I found this variation made the pages interesting and is a pleasant change from the usual solid blocks of black print. When you combine this with the colourful illustrations on almost every page I would recommend this book for a 7-9 year old reader, especially one who struggles with more traditionally illustrated books.

Possibly what impressed me most was how the story gradually introduces us to Japanese culture and language. For example, when they first go to the training center, we learn the Japanese for gym is ‘dojo’. Also at the end of the book the ‘ABC to karate’ gives the basics to Japanese, including the number 1-10. All in all an excellent book.

[Vivaan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I being in brown belt know that karate isn't easy . it takes a lot of time and whole lot of practice to get one belt. looking at Geronimo in the cover doing karate shocked me because Geronimo (no offence)is a very lazy mouse and just wants to relax he gets dragged onto all sorts of adventures and mysteries. so in his book ,Bruce hyena signs Geronimo for a Karate Contest and bruce hyena calls his
cousin sister Shorty tao who is a pro at karate to teach Geronimo karate. the main reason i rated it a 3 was i think its very dumb that Geronimo learnt all the karate moves in a week. i being in karate and t took me yers to learn karate moves. to fight in karate isn't easy but in the book they made it look so much easier. My favourite character in this book is Baby tao because he is so cute and really strong. My favourite part was when Geronimo won because i thought it was very dumb and very dramatic.

[Anthony Everhart · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book tells you about how you learn karate and Geronimo finds that his friend finds out that Geronimo is not in shape and in the end he actually wins the karate match!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice advert for karate

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about Geronimo Stilton. He is the publisher of the Rodent's Gazette, the most famouse newspaper on Mouse Island. One day Geronimo was enjoying bubble bath in the middle of shampooing his phone rang. He had soap all over his but the phone is kept ringing and ringing! It was his friend Bruce Hyena! Bruce likes all kinds of athletic activity. Bruce and his super sporty cousin. entered Geronimo in the Karate world championship. Geronimo couldn't believe it. But he don't know any single karate.... Its fun adventure of Mr Geronimo!

[Nicole Tsang · Rating 4 out of 5]

The main character was the mouse Geronimo he is the one who run newspaper
This story is about moldy mozzarella geronimo his friends Bruce hyena and his super sporty cousin shorty Tao entered me in the karate world championship, he couldn't believe it.he wasn't in shape, and I didn't know to single karate move. And he only had one week to train how on earth was he going to become a champion karate mouse in just seven days?

[Tessa Pemberton]

it was interestinglly fun and amazingly hilarioius defo 5 star reveiw for me




signed by:
Tessa Pemberton

[Wasif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geronimo Stilton has chosen for karate Championship. But He is not ready at all but his friend Bruce Hyena decided to make him a champion. Geronimo don't anything about karate!!

[Avina · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was good.The end was a little unexpecting.



Geronimo won.But the very end was a little funny.

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the better GS books we’ve read so far, as Geronimo spent less time complaining about his bad luck and more actually gaining an appreciation for the situation his friend roped him into. As usual, the boys loved it.

[wizardgates · Rating 5 out of 5]

such a great book! brings back all the good ole memories :)

[Pooja Banga · Rating 2 out of 5]

Seriously I wouldn't be able to write a review for this .
I don't know what should I actually write about this
Have anyone of you read it?

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geronimon Sliton wanted to try to learn Karate and he accoplish it.

[Abdul Rehman]

i think this website is really good because not everybody can afford expensive books so they can come and read any book on this website.

[Nataliajd96 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geronimo Stilton is not a sporty mouse. He's more of a book mouse, likes to relax and have some quiet time so,.... when his friends Bruce Hyena and Shorty Tao settled him on a plane to fly to a mysterious place that he didn't know of he felt panic. But when he found out that they were going to compete in the Karate World Championship, panic really came! Geronimo was no sporty mouse and he didn't know a thing about karate so how was he going to over come this challenge. He knew that his friends would help, but.... Read the book to find out what happens to Geronimo on this exciting adventure of the mighty sport karate.
I liked this book because of the colorful words and fun pictures.When you read you couldn't put it down because you knew that you were almost to the end and you had to know today what happened to Geronimo. The pictures were fun to look at because they had a lot of detail and a lot of things that you didn't notice the first time you looked but if you looked again you would see funny things that would make you smile and even sometimes laugh! I really liked this book.

[Meghan Hunt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first Geronimo Stilton book that I have read. I have to admit that I never understood the appeal of these books and was a little baffled by why they are so popular. I think I was put off by how busy the pages are with side information and the words that are randomly highlighted in a different font. I tend to think less is more. I am clearly not the intended audience, however. After reading this book, I am pleasantly surprised. I can see how it engages young readers and makes the chapter book more accessible to those that are used to less text and more illustrations. It also introduces new vocabulary and concepts in a fun way. The story itself was also fun, entertaining, and helpful. I loved that it showed Geronimo so nervous and how he was able to deal with his nerves. I'm looking forward to reading a few more in this series.

[Akanksha · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a book about geroimo stilton and his adventures. geroimo does not really like sports, Instead he prefers to read, relax and spend time quietly. But this time his friends send him off to japan and into the world of karate. geroimo does not know a thing about karate and he has only 7 days to learn. Will geroimo win this championship and prove himself or will he not?


It was full of funny pictures. it was a very colourful book. this book was very fun to read. it crabs your attention from the first page. I liked this book.

[Benedict Randhawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geronimo stilton run a most famous newspaper in mouse island. One day he enjoying his bubble bath. And his phone keep on ranging. It was his friend who enjoying all kind of sports. He told Geronimo stilton that Geronimo is going fight in Karate. Geronimo can say something his friend put his phone down. But Geronimo stilton doesn't anything about karate.

[Mansha Bhatia · Rating 5 out of 5]

never expect my reviews to be bad about geronimo stilton books because that is never gonna happen . The Karate Mouse is just another amazing and fabulously written book by him .

and I recommend this to everyone out there . though a children's book but this gives a good time to even grown ups :)

[Freud · Rating 4 out of 5]

i liked this book because,its a chapter book and a grathic novel also im reading from a mouses perspective.its intresting that geronimo does not know that he is going to a karate arena.also i like this book because i think karate is intrusting and im hoping to read the rest of his books.

[Joyce · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a fun and easy read. It was really funny as well. I thought it was interesting and captivating. I liked the facts and info on Japan and karate. This novel had so many morals and lesson that should be cherished and followed.

[Gabby · Rating 2 out of 5]

Can't remember if I've read this or not...but read it (again?) anyway.
2.5 stars

[Joe Ablaza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good like it

I loved the ending I was cool and gave a messenger to the reader I think children under 10 should read this book

[Farrah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't think I was the best Geronimo Stilton. It didn't interest me as other Geronimo Stilton have. But I did like that Thea was in it. I like the ones that Thea is in

[Ali Enan · Rating 5 out of 5]

i think is good book for beginning readers and it teaches people to do something to do something you don't like

[Varun Patesaria]

we cannot read book in this app and in kindle we can download only sample and buy the book with money and shows dree book

[Vinca Yuen]

I think it is really funny because Geronimo the writer is very scared of anything including karate.Hahahahahah!!!!

[Farzanah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a humorous edition. Unless you’re a Geronimo Stilton fan you’ll be able to see how good the book is from the book.

[Σελήνη]

Fun fact: they missed a sentence in an illustration (p. 52) when translating so you get to enjoy a bit of Italian in the French edition (or at least my copy)