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|title= Asterix and the Picts

|author=Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier Conrad

|publisher=Orion Children's Books

|date=October 2013

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|summary=A delightful comic book adventure that is as enjoyable for adults as it for children.

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I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audience, but it is equally apparent that many of the jokes are thrown in for adults as well. It does seem as if more adults are buying Asterix than children now, and comics in general have been taken over by the adult consumer, but Asterix still has plenty to offer the younger reader as well. If it is perhaps a bit more sophisticated than the average children's book today, all the better. I'm all for children's books that are light and easy to read, but I think we are doing our children a disservice by filtering out any book with a more complex vocabulary or a fair number of unfamiliar words. My children did find a few words like ''solidarity'', ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challenging, but if we don't challenge them at all - how will they learn?

For more of Asterix, have a look at [[Where's Asterix? by Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny]].

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