Fast Five Fiction: National Library Week

It's Friday and time for Fast Five Fiction! Each week I share five fiction books: new books, notable books, books around a common theme. Next week we'll be celebrating National Library Week and will have our costumed characters traveling all throughout the community to various schools and communities as well as doing a meet and greet at the library. In honor of that, today I'll be sharing 5 series featuring this year's characters. These series of books, translated from Italian, are some of the most checked out items in the children's department. 

Geronimo Stilton by Geronimo Stilton

Geronimo Stilton is an Italian children's chapter book series created by Elisabetta Dami and written under the pen name of the title character. Scholastic began publishing the English version of the series in the US in February 2004. The series is set on a fictional version of Earth dominated by anthropomorphic mice and rats and focuses on the title character, a mouse who lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island. A best-selling author, Geronimo Stilton, works as editor and publisher for the newspaper, The Rodent's Gazette. Geronimo is a nervous, mild-mannered mouse who prefers a quiet life, yet keeps getting into faraway adventure. The books are written as fictional memoirs of him on these adventures. The books are designed and distributed in full color, depicting important words in the text as colored and in illustrative typefaces.

Thea Stilton by Thea Stilton

The series is aimed toward female audiences and focuses on the Thea Sisters, a group of five friends who are from different continents and were the students of Thea Stilton.

Kingdom of Fantasy by Geronimo Stilton

The series chronicles Geronimo's adventures in a magical world known as the Kingdom of Fantasy.

Spacemice by Geronimo Stilton

The series is set in a parallel universe based on space opera, featuring Geronimo Stiltonix as the captain of the entire spaceship MouseStar1.

Mouseford Academy by Thea Stilton

This series follows Nicky, Colette, Violet, Paulina and Pamela, five of Thea Stilton's students at Mouseford Academy who call themselves the Thea Sisters. Mouseford Academy is a prestigious college located on Whale Island. Thea, who is a graduate of the prestigious academy, is a visiting professor of journalism. 

Happy Friday and happy reading!