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Explorers On The Moon (The Adventures of Tintin) (Paperback)
by Hergé
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Adventure, Fiction, Ages 9-12, Children's book |
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Author: Hergé
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. in: September, 1976
ISBN: 0316358460
Pages: 62
Measurements: 11.6 x 8.6 x 0.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00145
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Explorers on the Moon (On a Marche Sur La Lune, 1954) picks up right where Destination Moon left off... But what makes Explorers on the Moon so fascinating is the documentary detail that Herge infuses into the story. You cannot think of a 1950s science fiction film that predicts as accurately what happened when Apollo 11 went to the moon a decade and a half later. One of the chief charms of Herge's artwork has always been the way his caricature drawings of Tintin and friends are contrasted by the realistic backgrounds, and this artistic style achieves its apex when we see the spaceship approaching the moon. Explorers on the Moon would work as a straight-forward first man on the moon type story, but, of course, in Herge's hands it becomes so much more. Taken together with Destination Moon, this has got to constitute Tintin's greatest adventure.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 6
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Hergé (pseudonym of Georges Remi), Belgian author and illustrator, created Tintin in 1929 and produced 24 volumes of the internationally famous bande dessinée by the time of his death. Known as the father of the modern European comic book, Hergé's impeccable style and superb use of color won him international acclaim after the Second World War, and the books have been translated from the original French into some 40 languages.
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It was bound to happen. Having journeyed everywhere from America to the Congo to Tibet, Tintin blasts into outer space. Together with his faithful pooch, Snowy, the spunky boy reporter has joined an expedition "based at the Sprodj Atomic Center, high in the Zmyhlpathian Mountains, in the kingdom of Syldavia." Following a perfect lift-off, the myriad misadventures begin, as the ubiquitous "certified detectives," Thomson and Thompson, are discovered on board-inadvertent stowaways who threaten to monopolize the ship's precious oxygen supply. All's well that lands well, however, as Tintin and his colleagues return safely. Except for two diverting spreads, the fairly pedestrian paper engineering adds little zip; the palette, too, seems somewhat attenuated for a tale of astronomical derring-do. Though the narrative is overlong for the pop-up book set, this disparity will probably not deter the intrepid voyager's many fans.
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Gary Selikow (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
This science fictional comic, written in 1954, 14 years before the first actual moon landing, fails to disappoint, after the precedent set by its prequel, Destination Moon.
This adventure sees Tintin and friends successfully go to the moon and back, defeating such problems as a rapidly depleting oxygen source and villains who have followed them into space.
I read it when I was ten and it led me to become interested in space.
I remember sitting on top of the roof of my home, reading it , and seeing a shooting star fly by. There is something intriguing about these comics. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
This was a great book! It surveyed knowledge of astronomy (which is always interesting), and then put on top of that a great mystery and awesome characters! You can't have a great Tintin story without Captain Haddock, Tintin, Professor Calculous, T&T, Snowy, and even Wolf make the story great. Herge really knows how to write! |
David Horiuchi (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Concluding the journey that began in Destination Moon, Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus are on their way to the moon, but unforeseen circumstances-innocent and otherwise-threaten the best-laid plans. Ever since it was first published in 1953, this technologically fascinating tale has probably been many kids' first glimpse of the mechanics involved in space travel, but the plot is as riveting as anything Herge ever wrote.
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