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Young Asterix fans will have hours of fun searching for their favourite characters amidst a variety of fascinating and colourful scenes.
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A fun and funny volume full of hilarious scenes featuring Asterix and his friends in a range of different escapades! Younger readers are sure to have fun searching for Asterix amidst the chaos.
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a 'spot the character' book, much in the same vein as Where's Wally?. Looking at the pictures, it appears at times that some of the illustrations have been drawn smaller and been enlarged to some extent, rather than drawn to the scale of the page - this becomes apparent in some of the less-complicated pictures, which have distinctly less to hunt around for than others.
Most of the pictures are good, however - and the cunning eye will spot some amusing situations happening (for example, a battle-axe wife chastising her husband when she catches him staring at one of the attractive dancers) - so there's a lot of entertainment to be had once you get used to looking for the details.
As with the illustrations in all the Asterix books, they have a sketchy quality that is quite messy, and some readers might not like this too much. Asterix fans will love this book without a second thought, though.
The items and characters that you have to look for aren't as extensive a list as I would have hoped for, although it's easy enough to play 'I-spy' on the page, or make up your own list for someone else to find. I'll remove a star for my slight misgivings.
Most of the pictures are good, however - and the cunning eye will spot some amusing situations happening (for example, a battle-axe wife chastising her husband when she catches him staring at one of the attractive dancers) - so there's a lot of entertainment to be had once you get used to looking for the details.
As with the illustrations in all the Asterix books, they have a sketchy quality that is quite messy, and some readers might not like this too much. Asterix fans will love this book without a second thought, though.
The items and characters that you have to look for aren't as extensive a list as I would have hoped for, although it's easy enough to play 'I-spy' on the page, or make up your own list for someone else to find. I'll remove a star for my slight misgivings.
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4 reviews
loads of fun
28 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The latest asterix offering really has no story except for the wonderfull two page drawings. Each is a sotry of its own, and you can make up different ones each time you look at them. The hook is how you search for the different caractors on the page and discover the very different sub storys going on undder neeth you eyes.
My nephew loved it
7 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This was a gift for my nephew. He loved it! My only complaint would be that there are too few pages for the price.... The cover seems to be thicker than all the inner pages combined.
Parody of Where's Wally Using a Beloved Childhood Comic Book's Group of Characters
21 Dec 2011
Format:Hardcover
Where's Asterix joins Where's Bin Laden?, Where's Elvis? and the growing number of Where's Wally (Waldo in North America) parodies. I loved the Asterix comics as a kid so when I saw this one, just had to check it out. Many adults check out the Asterix comics (now called graphic novels) from the libraries where I work so I think this would make a great present for people of any age. The 2010 character illustrations are well drawn, staying very loyal to the ones in the long dead Rene Goscinny's original books. Of course Asterix replaces Wally/Waldo as the main character to be found on each page, he's pretty easy to find in some and very hard in a few. There were two that I couldn't find him, there's an answer page on and next to the back cover. Found all the other characters though pretty easy. On each double page spread you will be asked to find between four and seven different characters. There's a few set in the Gaulish Village where you'll get to see all the characters and can even challenge others to find the ones the book is not asking you to. There's another set in a roman town, a fair with an arena, storming a roman fort, in a roman court, out at sea, in a Roman festival, inside a legion of soldiers and shields, in Egypt where Caesar's palace is being built, and on a rugby field. So the book brings back a lot of memories of Asterix adventures read as a child (or adult).
You do have to know who one or two characters are (ie what they look like) for a few of the challenges, which means you have to have some memory of them from the comics. There are a number of characters listed in the front but not all of the ones you are challenged to find. I also think they could have had a few more characters listed to find to add to the challenge since they are present in the images. Still overall it's a fun way to pass an hour or two or reminisce about comics you read long ago.
You do have to know who one or two characters are (ie what they look like) for a few of the challenges, which means you have to have some memory of them from the comics. There are a number of characters listed in the front but not all of the ones you are challenged to find. I also think they could have had a few more characters listed to find to add to the challenge since they are present in the images. Still overall it's a fun way to pass an hour or two or reminisce about comics you read long ago.
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