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[= Belgian edition in French of Quaker Oats, Bommel and Tom Poes] Very rare French translation of BB 12.1. This picture album was also published in Belgian Dutch under the title Dutch 'Tom Poes'. The characters address each other with 'ge' and not 'U'. The album pictures are bilingual and completely interchangeable with the Belgian / French-language and Dutch / Dutch-language editions. Tom Poes who experiences an advertising story for Quaker Oats Grain Products from Rotterdam. He travels with Mr. Bommel through Africa and the Middle East and even the Arctic, but this time everything in French with 85 album pictures. Published by A / S OTA in Copenhagen 1952. In the introductory chapter "Travel plans" Mr. Bommel and his young friend Tom Poes decide to go on a trip again, by boat "To a beautiful country, somewhere in the South". In the second chapter, “The Shipwreck,” Tom Poes immediately starts cooking porridge on board the Waggel II. The boat is wrecked in the first storm, but Tom Poes saves the porridge and continues to stir it, which they enjoy when they wash ashore. In “A Portion of Gentlemen’s Beer,” Mr. Ollie threatens to disappear into the stomachs of the natives, but the porridge proves to be a good alternative. The travelers escape and reach an exotic city in the chapter “The Sick Prince,” where the porridge heals the sultan’s son, with a camel as a reward. With this they travel home to the North in “The Terror of the Black Mountains,” but in the mountains they encounter a gang of robbers. Mr. Bommel gets a beating, but strengthened by a portion of porridge he accidentally defeats the chief. They continue their journey on foot in the last chapter, “The Wolves.” In the next town they buy a motorcycle, with which they die in a snowstorm. The stockpiled supplies are used to keep wolves at bay and new strength is drawn from porridge. Back home, Joost immediately puts a pan on the stove with …… oatmeal, whereupon Mr. Bommel speaks the true words: “It’s beginning to sound like a recommendation for eating oatmeal”. “Oh, but it’s not ordinary oatmeal!” said Joost. “It’s H.-O., with your permission!” … to the galley to prepare the meal.
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