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Such a fun read!
Children will enjoy it, but adults too. I love when there are different levels of reading in books. And I love the span of humor: anachronisms, play on words, situational humor...

I now have a 180-day streak on Duolingo, and am putting the acquired skills to practical use, absorbing the timeless literature of the Gauls.

I‘ve decided to tackle this series more systematically after reading a few random volumes over the years. What a surprise, the first story is great!

New publisher picked up Asterix “retranslatedâ€� it. It seems like they just removed from dated, sometimes offensive jokes. But there‘s a paradox here. The original Asterix has pretty terrible stereotypes of Africans and Jews (a.k.a. Phoenicians). Redrawing cant and isn‘t being done. So do you want to try to “updateâ€� the text? As a kid I got that it was an artifact… of the past and another country. The text

I‘m a late arrival to the #30JuneBooks, so apologies if I‘m doing it wrong!

Not sure if this counts as a #PictureBook, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I read the prompt. I loved and read avidly the adventures of Asterix and Obelix when I was a child!

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Now I'm no anthropologist, but this morning I couldn't find the scissors, so I dug through some drawers and found these under some papers. I've never seen them before, but the available evidence indicates that they are scissors from ancient France from up to 3,000 years ago.

Can't decide whether to use them as no cutters or contact the museum.