A Christmas Tale

A Christmas Tale is one among the popular Geronimo Stilton series and is about the importance of having family during the occasion of Christmas. The events of the book are based around Christmas time where the protagonist Geronimo, a mouse, is impatiently waiting to celebrate Christmas eve with his friends and family but becomes extremely upset when he discovers that they are travelling out of town during that time. The mouse realizes that he will be all alone on Christmas eve and this makes him really sad. He feels like a killjoy who is unwanted everywhere. Discovering whether the mouse will spend the Christmas all alone or with someone he knows is the captivating part of the book.

Although Elisabetta Dami did not win any awards during her time, her books had a faithful audience and were well received. The books in the Geronimo Stilton series are adventure books intended for children in the age group of 6-12. Since the year 2000, when the first story came out, more than 65 million copies with 20 million in Italy and 45 million in the rest of the world, have been sold.

The books have been adapted into an animated series Geronimo Stilton which is being aired since 2009 on Italian channels. Also, the series has been translated into 35 different languages.