Would you buy food from someone called Unhygenix?

Did you know that the first French satellite was named Asterix-1 in honour of Asterix? Asterix stories have been translated from French into more than 100 languages and dialects including Icelandic, Arabic and even Ancient Greek. The names of all the Asterix characters contain puns (jokes that play with words), for example Cacophonix is a really bad musician and a cacophony is a really awful noise…

For cool wallpapers, games and other stuff you can visit the official French site www.asterix.com. There’s also a New Zealand site with lots of news, facts and fun at www.asterix.co.nz. Click here to see what Asterix books are in the library at the moment. Goscinny (who wrote the Asterix books) wrote other stuff as well… there’s also a series of books about a boy called Nicholas. They’re about a French boy (Nicholas of course) and what mischief he and his friends get up to. Look them up on the catalogue . We’ve even got it in French!