Asterix: Asterix in Britain
Album 8
$30.54
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2004
Summary
One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedicus Britannicus’s Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink. It’s not quite cricket - how about a nice cup of hot water, though Or even the first ever tea-party
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780752866185 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0752866184 |
| Author: | Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orion Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 447g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 221mm x 295mm |
| Series: | Asterix |
| Audience Age: | 8-11 |
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Critics Review
A great comic series proving that children’s literature isn’t limited to prose.
Review in BOLTON EVE NEWS and GREENOCK TELEGRAPH
Rene Goscinny
Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977.
Albert Uderzo was born in 1927 in a small village in Marne, France. He met Rene Goscinny in 1951 and on 29 October 1959 their most famous creation, Asterix, made his first appearance on page 20 of Pilote. ASTERIX THE GAUL, their first album, was published in 1961 and there have now been 34 Asterix albums.
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