Asterix and Obelix get into a right mess when the druid Getafix breaks his golden sickle so he can't make any more of his magic brew. They travel to Lutetia (now Paris) to get him a brand new one, but they soon become tangled up with a criminal gang in the big city. Will Asterix and Obelix get the better of Navishtrix, Clovogarlix and the sickle-trafficking gang? Find out in this fantastic Asterix adventure now translated into Scots for the first time.

 

This book features in the following series: Asterix, Asterix the Gaul .

There are 48 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2015 by Black and White Publishing .

Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977. Matthew Fitt is a poet and writer of fiction. His futuristic thriller But n Ben A-Go-Go (2000), a novel written entirely in Scots, has received critical acclaim and substantial sales, and he is working on a sequel. Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo created Asterix in 1959. His adventures were first published in English in 1969. Goscinny died in 1977, and Uderzo now writes and illustrates the Asterix adventures.