Rating: Not for me

Reading Level: Early Elementary

If your young reader is ravenous for books, I suppose you could do worse.

A mouse who is afraid of nearly everything is tricked by his family into a week-long jungle boot camp designed to help him face his fears. The boot camp sergeant is a screaming lady-mouse who uses bullying & threats to force Geronimo to do scary things. I got tired of her strategy & unpleasantness. It was awful.

Things I was not excited about:

  • Deception. The family lies to Geronimo. Admittedly it was for an intervention, but still not a great model.
  • Bullying. The boot camp lady is an outright bully, yelling and screaming all the time.
  • Name-calling (e.g.cheese-head).
  • Threatening. If you don’t do what I say, I’ll punish you by…
  • Lady mouse using sex appeal as a lure. It was not age appropriate in my opinion.

Some families may like it, and I might try a different Geronimo Stilton story, but this one just wasn’t fun for me.

Here is a link to Big Books Little Ears’ Reviews of several Geronimo Stilton books: https://bigbookslittleears.com/thorough-review-of-all-the-geronimo-stilton-books/