Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novel #1: The Discovery of America
It took me no time at all to tell my family And they’d never turn down a new adventure My sister Thea My nephew Benjamin his friend BUGSY WUGSY Fantastic And my cousin Trap The Pirate Cats I’m on my way I’ll postpone my trip to the Amazon Rainforest An hour later The Pirate Cats went to 1492 in Spain the year that Christopher Columbus arrived in America I’m sure they want to change history How will we catch up with them Professor With the Speedrat my friends My latest invention A high-tech time machine Werecat whiskers WOW Speedrat Gracious gorgonzola Professor you never cease to surprise us 7
How nice Another trip in time But how will we keep them from recognizing us You’ll find CLOTHING and everything you need for your trip in the Speedrat VRRRR And how will we be able to understand everyone With this earpiece It’s practically invisible and translates every language GREAT And what will we eat My stomach’s already GROWLiNG Ack Um Professor don’t listen to him Tell us where the Pirate Cats are instead Good luck And remember that the FUTURE iS iN YOUR PAWS In Spain in the city of Palos the port that COLUMBUS sailed from in the month of August Never fear Professor We’ll find the Pirate Cats and stop them And so we left for a new trip into time We didn’t know what dangers we would face but we knew we’d be up to our whiskers in adventure PALOS is a small town today but in the time of Columbus it was a large port and it became even more important due to the discovery of America Spain Palos 8
Calamitous cats Now where will we put the CATJET Back in Palos it was AUGUST 1 1492 The rulers of Spain Ferdinand and Isabella had asked Christopher Columbus to discover a new route to the Indies and the great Italian navigator was getting ready to depart In the meantime the Pirate Cats had arrived in Palos and were getting ready for their mission No one must find our time machine Let's cover it up with some of that trash Catjet Hop to it Hairball those overfed balls of fur I always have to do the worst jobs Now that we're in Spain what will we do Are we going to go right to the port YEAH TERSiLLA WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ARE WE GOING TO GO TO SEE REAL MADRiD PLAY Let's put on our mouse masks now then we can get dressed at the coast I have to look like a sailor too Mouse ears Mouse nose Don't talk nonsense Don't mouse off Bonzo SOCCER hasn't been invented yet 9
Later at the port Listen rodents I'm Minestrone Moustroni THE ROYAL INSPECTOR I speak in the name of the king We need expert sailors who are strong and fearless The royal inspector traveled with Columbus He was in charge of reporting every detail of the mission to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella The Pirate Cats with their mouse masks on You sure look funny in that mouse mask Meow down Do you want them to How dare you I'm your BOSS discover us NEXT AND WHAT CAN YOU DO I've served three kings sailed every sea discovered hundreds of treasures and am an expert helmsman Sailor if half of what you say is true you're just the rodent for us Calm down My companions and I would be happy to serve under the great Columbus What companions Those two over there Hey dummy You think you're a better sailor than me Who says so My mama says so We need a good helmsman but we don't want any roughnecks roughnecks Go tell them to knock it off then FOLLOW ME 10
