THE VALLEY OF THE GIANT SKELETON

A BOUT THE A UTHOR

Born in New Mouse City, Mouse

Island, GE RO N I M O ST I LT O N is

Rattus Emeritus of Mousomorphic

Literature and of Neo-Ratonic

Comparative Philosophy. For the

past twenty years, he has been

running The Rodent’s Gazette, New Mouse City’s
most widely read daily newspaper.

Stilton was awarded the Ratitzer Prize for his

scoops on The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid and

The Search for Sunken Treasure. He has also

received the Andersen 2000 Prize for Personality of

the Year. One of his bestsellers won the 2002 eBook

Award for world’s best ratlings’ electronic book. His

works have been published all over the globe.

In his spare time, Mr. Stilton collects antique

cheese rinds and plays golf. But what he most

enjoys is telling stories to his nephew Benjamin.



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Map of New Mouse City

1. Industrial Zone 24. The Daily Rat
2. Cheese Factories 25. The Rodent’s Gazette
3. Angorat International 26. Trap’s House
27. Fashion District
Airport 28. The Mouse House
4. WRAT Radio and
Restaurant
Television Station
5. Cheese Market 29. Environmental
6. Fish Market Protection Center
7. Town Hall
8. Snotnose Castle 30. Harbor Of ce
9. The Seven Hills of 31. Mousidon Square

Mouse Island Garden
10. Mouse Central Station
11. Trade Center 32. Golf Course
12. Movie Theater 33. Swimming Pool
34. Tennis Courts
13. Gym 35. Curlyfur Island

14. Catnegie Hall Amousement Park
15. Singing Stone Plaza 36. Geronimo’s House
16. The Gouda Theater 37. Historic District
17. Grand Hotel 38. Public Library
18. Mouse General Hospital
19. Botanical Gardens 39. Shipyard
20. Cheap Junk for Less
40. Thea’s House
(Trap’s store) 41. New Mouse Harbor
21. Aunt Sweetfur and 42. Luna Lighthouse
43. The Statue of Liberty
Benjamin’s House 44. Hercule Poirat’s Of ce
22. Mouseum of 45. Petunia Pretty Paws’s

Modern Art House
23. University and Library 46. Grandfather William’s

House







Map of Mouse Island

1. Big Ice Lake 21. Lake Lakelake
2. Frozen Fur Peak 22. Lake Lakelakelake
3. Slipperyslopes Glacier 23. Cheddar Crag
4. Coldcreeps Peak 24. Cannycat Castle
25. Valley of the Giant
5. Ratzikistan
Sequoia
6. Transratania 26. Cheddar Springs
27. Sulfurous Swamp
7. Mount Vamp 28. Old Reliable Geyser
8. Roastedrat Volcano 29. Vole Vale
9. Brimstone Lake 30. Ravingrat Ravine
10. Poopedcat Pass 31. Gnat Marshes
11. Stinko Peak 32. Munster Highlands
12. Dark Forest 33. Mousehara Desert
34. Oasis of the
13. Vain Vampires Valley
Sweaty Camel
14. Goose Bumps Gorge 35. Cabbagehead Hill
15. The Shadow Line Pass 36. Rattytrap Jungle
16. Penny Pincher Castle 37. Rio Mosquito
17. Nature Reserve Park
18. Las Ratayas Marinas
19. Fossil Forest
20. Lake Lake



Dear mouse friends,
Thanks for reading, and farewell

till the next book.
It’ll be another whisker-licking-good

adventure, and that’s a promise!







Who is Geronimo Stilton?

That’s me! I run a newspaper, but
my true passion is writing adventure

stories. Here in New Mouse City, the

G Seronimocapital of Mouse Island, my books
TilTon

are all bestsellers! My stories are

funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are

whisker-licking-good tales, and that’s
a promise!

Thea valley of the
giant skeletons

Tuslaarai! Tuslaarai! That’s Mongolian

for “Help!” and holey cheese did I
need some! I was lost in the Gobi

Trap Desert, looking for a hidden treasure.

So far, all I had found were sand-

bones? Rat-munching rattlesnakes —

how do I get myself into these

Benjamin

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