Seeing Tintin in the UK is great for those of us in the UK, and there are some beautiful pictures here that capture aspects of British and Scottish life and landscape now largely lost, but still discernible here and there. Like Tintin in Tibet, The Black Island features a lovable hairy gorilla type creature in a prominent role, allowing Hergé to play with our perceptions of nature vs. nurture, brutality, fear and tenderness. All of which typifies the breadth and depth of enjoyment one can still draw, even as an adult, from these ‘picture books for kids’.