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Excellent quality as always by Herge, superb illustrations. Good quality book
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We bought Explorers on the Moon in English to help us work on our French, by comparing the English and French versions side by side. What a kick! It's a great learning tool because you can see how non-literal a translation can be. Some passages could have been from two different books, they were so different. The Tintin stories are also just plain fun. The main character is a young guy who, in French, is sometimes described as a boy but is also a young reporter. Wiki says this about the series: "The series has been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's signature ligne claire ("clear line") style... Its well-researched...plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of sophisticated satire and political or cultural commentary."Read full review