Item category 1: Picture Books for Older Readers

This is the 28th book in the popular Asterix series, in which Asterix travels on a magic carpet to India.

A woman bard is unheard of in Ancient Gaul, but when the mothers in Asterix's village decide that besides being a terrible musician Cacofonix, the local bard and school-teacher, is not educating their children properly, it's Bravura they call in.

In this adventure Tintin hears of a robbery at the Museum of Ethnography. A sacred tribal object from the Arumbaya tribe has been stolen. Tintin embarks upon a journey to find out the truth behind the object's disappearance.

After his hectic time at Christmas, Santa Claus needs a holiday, but where will he go? He starts off in France, but doesn't like it, so he moves on to Scotland, where it is too cold. Eventually he ends up in Nevada, where he has a lovely time.

A millionaire's airplane with Tintin and Snowy aboard is hijacked to a Pacific island where an old enemy attempts to extract the rich man's Swiss bank account number by using a truth serum.

One evening Tintin and Snowy spot a shooting star. Tintin rings the observatory to ask what star it is. Soon he learns that this star is set to collide with Earth - meaning the end of the world! Can Tintin help in time?