Tatu and Patu at the Kindergarten
Tatu and Patu have won a lottery prize: a free day out at the spa! However, they confuse the signs, and instead of the Funday Fitness Centre, they find themselves in the Under Fives Club, just next door.
So where are the swimming pools, the all-over massage tables, and the health treatments, the boys wonder at first. They realise that they have ended up at the daycare next door, and start to devise different plans with the help of the other kids to get into the spa.
But after mudbaths in the sandpit, a work-out on the climbing frame, some drawing and painting, and rehearsals for the spring pageant play – for which they get to write the plot – Tatu and Patu are convinced that going to daycare is quite as much fun as a day at the spa.
Tatu and Patu at the Kindergarten is a delightful account of an ordinary day at the daycare, written and drawn with hilarious blunders classic to the adventures of the Oddville boys.
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Year of publication
2004
Original title
Tatu ja Patu päiväkodissa
Page count
36
Original publisher
Otava
Original language of publication
Finnish
Reviews
Birgit Arnold/ Finnland-tour.de
"The wonderful humour of Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen is now being appreciated by more and more fans and literary critics. The book Tatu and Patu’s Mad Machines was nominated for the German Children's Literature Prize in the picture book category. It wasn't enough to win, but one should assume that the number of fans will continue to grow. "More of this", cries the Tatu and Patu fan community."
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