Tatu and Patu – Ready, Steady, Go!

By Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen

It’s time to get moving with Tatu and Patu!

The Oddville duo Tatu and Patu are glued to their screens, and Veera has to do everything she can to get the boys up and outside to spend time together. But when the duo get moving, nothing can hold them back.

Tatu and Patu enjoy physical activities, exercise, and professional sports in the true Oddville style. Readers will get to accompany Tatu and Patu as they go on a forest hike, get a taste of pro tennis life and even represent Oddville at an athletics championship. Tatu and Patu – Ready, Steady, Go is an utterly funny take on the joy of movement in all possible forms including some figure walking moves that everyone can give a try.

This book is a rib-tickling take on the joy of movement. The book seeks to inspire people of all ages to get up and move.

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About the author

Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen work together as children’s authors, illustrators, and graphic designers. For the young Finnish readers they are best known as the creators of the hilarious Oddville boys, Tatu and Patu, whose limitless imagination we can admire already in 23 titles to date. The riotous humour of these hugely popular illustrated books appeals to children and adults alike. Tatu and Patu: This is Finland won the Finlandia Junior prize in 2007, and in 2017 the authors were granted the Finland State Prize for Children’s Culture. In Finland Tatu and Patu books have sold over 1.3 million copies and the translation rights have been sold in 31 languages. Aino Havukainen was born in 1968. She graduated as a graphic designer from Lahti Institute of Design in 1992 and has worked as multimedia designer and as an AD in an advertising agency until the beginning of her free lance career in 1996.Sami Toivonen was born in 1971. He graduated also as a graphic designer from Lahti Institute of Design in 1994 and has worked free lance since 1996. He was awarded in 1989 with the Finnish Critics’ Association’s award “Boost for Criticism” for his comic strips, given annually to a young artist for a fresh artistic breakthrough.