Tatu and Patu’s Amazing Alphabets
By
Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen
Tatu and Patu find a box in the attic brimming with old photos and mementoes of years gone by, and there’s plenty of wacky humour and earth-shaking revelations about the crazy life they’ve lived.
With the help of the alphabet, the boys are led down memory lane, and there is an extra bonus letter: the mark of Oddsville.
As the boys go through the box, they see vacation photos from Barbados, and pictures from a disco and a Christmas market. They also find out that their pictures have been used in a sales catalogue and appeared in a newspaper. The boys also find Patu’s passport photo gone wrong.
Included along the way are familiar adventures from the past, like a group photo of the Esikko day care and a series of documentary pictures of what happened when Tatu and Patu went on a picnic with Veera. At the very bottom of the box is a picture of Oddsville, the place they were born in, but what a shame, the picture is badly worn..
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.
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