A collection of five stories featuring Mellville the penguin and his friends, in a race to save exploding cheese from the vast hordes of chicken ninjas.
Explains how cheese is made at the Hilmar Cheese Company in California, from milking the cows to pasteurizing, processing, aging, and shipping the cheese.
Readers learn that factory farming practices can produce mass amounts of milk cheaply, but they can also lead to sick cows, a polluted environment, and milk that may not be healthy to drink.
Newspaper editor Geronimo Stilton resides in New Mouse City the capital of Mouse Island with his relatives. After they travel to England they discover their cheese is missing and now they must spend their time searching for the thief who stole it.