| ISBN |
9781405206358 (paperback) |
| Name |
Hergé, 1907-1983 author. |
| Title |
Tintin and the Picaros / Hergé ; [translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner] |
| Edition |
[New edition] |
| Published |
London : Egmont UK Limited, 2012. |
| ©1976 |
| Description |
62 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Summary |
The world's most famous travelling reporter gets caught up in a revolutionary adventure. Bianca Castafiore has been imprisoned by General Tapioca! Also accused of threatening Tapioca's dictatorship, Tintin, Calculus and Haddock jet off to the jungle HQ of the revolutionaries, and hatch a plot surrounding the upcoming carnival and Haddock's sudden and mysterious disgust for whisky...Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011, The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6. |
| Language note |
Translated from the French. |
| Subjects |
Tintin (Fictitious character) Comic books, strips, etc |
| Caricatures and cartoons -- Comic books, strips, etc |
| Genre |
Graphic novels |
| Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6 |
| Other Names |
Turner, Michael R translator. |
| Lonsdale-Cooper, Leslie translator. |
| Series |
Aventures de Tintin. English 23. |
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