Hot off the press: four animated stories, starring children’s book character — and intrepid mouse journalist — Geronimo Stilton, will be released on DVD by eOne on Feb. 4. The action-packed tales on “Intrigue on the Rodent Express and Other Adventures” include the eponymous episode, a suspenseful homage to Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”; “The Mummy with No Name,” which unravels the identity of the ambulatory, embalmed menace inside the museum — a la Scooby Doo; “The Mask of the Rat-Jitsu,” in which Stilton and his family trek to a martial arts competition where champions are disappearing into the thin mountain air; and “Starring Geronimo,” in which our hero must take the stage in order to save a playhouse threatened by the Cheesy Development Group. Recommended for ages 6 and older, these episodes infuse a wonderful variety of vocabulary words into the entertaining action and slapstick. To paraphrase Stilton, it is simply “cheddarific!”
“Geronimo Stilton: Intrigue on the Rodent Express and Other Adventures” DVD, $12.98, www.amazon.com.
