Harry Thompson, Tintin: Hergé and His Creation

I’m sure I’ve read this before, but maybe it’s just going over familiar ground. Freddie likes to have a Tintin or Asterix story at bedtime, and his cousin Ciara is a fan at the moment, so I lugged all the books down from the loft last week. It’s tough going reading the stories to Fred, as you can’t really just do the dialogue to explain what’s happening, so I have to try and summarise each part. A lack of imagination on my part means this often becomes ‘Tintin is chasing the bad men, but then Captain Haddock falls over and goes bash! And then Thompson and Thomson bash into each other!’ Roll on the day when he can read them for himself. Apparently T & T can be told apart, as Thomson’s moustache flares out a little bit at the bottom