Geronimo Stilton, the famous journalist mouse, born from an idea by Elisabetta Dami, who collected the love of millions of girls and boys all over the world, turns 25 and celebrates them in a stratopic 2025 celebrating happiness with events and initiatives throughout Italy. Unique phenomenon, Italian excellence with record numbers, his books, published by Edizioni Piemme, have sold over 187 million copies all over the world and it is estimated that, in Italy, a copy of Geronimo Stilton per minute is sold. His adventures have also become animated series co -produced with Rai Fiction. A book dedicated to the theme of happiness is also coming, coming out in May.
In this important birthday, Geronimo Stilton will be accompanied in all its events and activities by a new special logo. «Twenty -five years together with Geronimo with the same enthusiasm, the same emotion, the same joy of sharing love for reading and fantasy with our young readers. The boys consider me the “mother of Geronimo Stilton”: still today this moves me and I consider it a sign of great affection and trust that motivates me to commit myself with the same love … for the next 25 years! ” Elisabetta Dami says.
Thanks to the collaboration of bookstores, fairs, festivals, schools, and many operators active on the territories, Geronimo will bring his message from south to north, with many appointments dedicated to happiness and its facets. The boys and girls will not only meet Geronimo Stilton in fur and mustache, hear him tell his adventures firsthand and tighten his paw, but, thanks to the initiative “Dill in Geronimo!” they will be able to become the protagonists of the events. Everyone will be able to leave a message, a note, a letter dedicated to happiness. The desire of the journalist mouse is to collect the thoughts of happiness, the hopes, the small and great daily joys of the girls and boys who will participate in the various occasions.
Starting from Messina, where Tomorrow Geronimo and Tea will meet five schools – The show will be held in the morning at PalaCultura, organized by the Bonanzinga bookshop together with the Paino Gravitelli Institute and the involvement of the comprehensive S. Margherita, the Gentiluomo pira, San Francesco di Paola, Paradiso and Pascoli -, the journalist mouse will then travel on the wings of happiness through Calabria, Puglia, Rome and the Lazio, Tuscany, Piedmont and many other stages of his stratopic tour in which he will share songs, reflections, important messages, readings, emotions and curiosities related to his books and those of his sister Tea Stilton.
There are 52 languages in which Geronimo Stilton is translated. Around him there is a real community, many characters who populate his topic, like his sister Tea – also who is author of many successful books. But what is his secret? “Having young readers at heart, listening to them and sharing with them fundamental and universal values, to accompany them in growth, in Italy and in the world,” says Dami.
His adventures cross the time and space, from the worlds of the past to those of fantasy and his universal language speaks of fundamental values such as friendship, empathy, kindness, respect for others and for the world that there surround. There are many arguments explored by Geronimo Stilton and his companions of adventures, but there is one that is particularly close to him because it is a real right for which everyone should commit every day: happiness.
Geronimo Stilton and Tea Stilton will also surprise with new and fun stories that will accompany young readers and readers to discover the world and new imaginary universes. Among the most important innovations “My day with Lucy”, in the bookstore on February 25, an adventure in Geronimo’s time in the company of the Australopithecus Lucy and the second chapter of “Captain Lupita” is also coming, new series signed by Tea Stilton.