Tintin in America

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Hardcover, 62 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 2003 by Mammoth.

ISBN:
978-1-4052-0802-4
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The boy hero comes to the United States and triumphs over gangsters in Chicago of the 1930's and the pitfalls of the wild West.

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Reading Tintin with my kiddo has been a strange experience. I'd never read any Tintin before, but thought it sounded like a much-loved set of adventures that my six year old might like.

And he does love them! But it's been a bit bemusing, from an adult perspective. Firstly, the quality of the narrative swings wildly back and forth, but not so much that I can't enjoy the tale along with him. All part of the fun.

Sometimes we have to pause the reading while I embark on quite extravagant explanations, because some of the plot twists aren't explicitly spelled out to a six year old's comprehension, but that's fine. I like an excuse to chat while we read.

While I'm on the subject of age-appropriateness though, I should mention that all the tales are littered with explicit references to fairly adult themes. The tale's baddies are often gun runners …

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Subjects

  • Comic strip fiction / graphic novels
  • Children: Grades 3-4