and mind! You’ll be healthier and have more energy.
5.
Tip number one: If you are feeling nervous before a
race, relax. Breathe in and out slowly until you feel calm,
strong, and confident.
Tip number two: Before any competition, try to imagine
that everything will go well. If you have a downhill skiing
race, for example, imagine that you have a great race! All
champions do this. And it works. Try it!
Tip number three: If you are still feeling afraid or
nervous, remember that at the end of the day, it’s only a
game!
WHEN YOU’RE SCARED . . .
USE YOUR HEAD!
6.
7.
A FIT MOUSE NEVER STOPS!
Playing sports is good for the mind and the body!
The ancient Romans said: Mens sana in corpore sano (a
sound mind in a sound body). Sports help release nervous
energy and aggression, help you make new friends, help
you be part of a team, make you feel more confident, and
help you to realize your goals . . . so they also help you
overcome any shyness you might have!
Remember: It’s better to exercise a little and often, rather
than exercise hard every once in a while!
I swim for an hour,
twice a week!
Ooof! I swim for six
hours, once every
three months!
8.
BE DISCIPLINED, AND KEEP
TRYING!
CHOOSE A SPORT THAT IS
RIGHT FOR YOU!
9.
Choose a sport that you like, but ask for advice from your
doctor, as well as someone who has more experience
than you.
Everybody is different: Some people are suited for swim-
ming, others for tennis, basketball, karate, fencing, football
or horseback riding . . .
Whatever sport you practice, remember to respect your
opponent! A true champion knows how to win, but he or
she also knows how to lose!
As the famouse French scholar Pierre de Coubertin said
in 1896 when promoting the new Olympics: “The impor-
tant thing is not to win, but to compete!”
All sports teach us to know ourselves better. They can
even create good feelings between athletes of different
nations and races!
RESPECT YOUR OPPONENT!
10.
Born in New Mouse City, Mouse
Island,
Geronimo Stilton
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.
A
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR
1. Main entrance
2. Printing presses (where the books
and newspaper are printed)
3. Accounts department
4. Editorial room (where the editors,
illustrators, and designers work)
5. Geronimo Stilton’s office
6. Helicopter landing pad
The RodenT’s
GazeTTe
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1
2
3
4
5
1. Industrial Zone
2. Cheese Factories
3. Angorat International
Airport
4. WRAT Radio and
Television Station
5. Cheese Market
6. Fish Market
7. Town Hall
8. Snotnose Castle
9. The Seven Hills of
Mouse Island
10. Mouse Central Station
11. Trade Center
12. Movie Theater
13. Gym
14. Catnegie Hall
15. Singing Stone Plaza
16. The Gouda Theater
17. Grand Hotel
18. Mouse General Hospital
19. Botanical Gardens
20. Cheap Junk for Less
(Trap’s store)
21. Aunt Sweetfur and
Benjamin’s House
22. Mouseum of
Modern Art
23. University and Library
24. The Daily Rat
25. The Rodent’s Gazette
26. Trap’s House
27. Fashion District
28. The Mouse House
Restaurant
29. Environmental
Protection Center
30. Harbor Office
31. Mousidon Square
Garden
32. Golf Course
33. Swimming Pool
34. Tennis Courts
35. Curlyfur Island
Amousement Park
36. Geronimo’s House
37. Historic District
38. Public Library
39. Shipyard
40. Thea’s House
41. New Mouse Harbor
42. Luna Lighthouse
43. The Statue of Liberty
44. Hercule Poirat’s Office
45. Petunia Pretty Paws’s
House
46. Grandfather William’s
House
Map of New Mouse City
1. Big Ice Lake
2. Frozen Fur Peak
3. Slipperyslopes Glacier
4. Coldcreeps Peak
5. Ratzikistan
6. Transratania
7. Mount Vamp
8. Roastedrat Volcano
9. Brimstone Lake
10. Poopedcat Pass
11. Stinko Peak
12. Dark Forest
13. Vain Vampires Valley
14. Goose Bumps Gorge
15. The Shadow Line Pass
16. Penny Pincher Castle
17. Nature Reserve Park
18. Las Ratayas Marinas
19. Fossil Forest
20. Lake Lake
21. Lake Lakelake
22. Lake Lakelakelake
23. Cheddar Crag
24. Cannycat Castle
25. Valley of the Giant
Sequoia
26. Cheddar Springs
27. Sulfurous Swamp
28. Old Reliable Geyser
29. Vole Vale
30. Ravingrat Ravine
31. Gnat Marshes
32. Munster Highlands
33. Mousehara Desert
34. Oasis of the
Sweaty Camel
35. Cabbagehead Hill
36. Rattytrap Jungle
37. Rio Mosquito
Map of Mouse Island
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!
ding books on Archive.
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