Tatu and Patu’s Fantasy Adventure

By Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen

Tatu and Patu return to embark upon a fantasy adventure! Embrace yourself for wizards and battles as the new Tatu and Patu story takes both the characters and readers into a magical world that will need the help of the Oddville boys. 

In this Tatu and Patu book, the duo’s love of fantasy opens the world of Avathor as they discover a passage through their bathroom mirror cabinet. Tatu and Patu have read about the legend of Avathor’s queen countless times, so they are ready to take action! In fact, they learn that Avathor is on the verge of chaos, therefore Tatu and Patu get the chance to use all their warrior and wizarding skills. 

Impressively illustrated, this peculiarly funny fantasy story shows the classic characters saving a kingdom by the use of cotton wool buds and soap, for example. This book by the talented duo Havukainen and Toivonen is a brilliant pastiche of fantasy genre with Tatu and Patu’s genious humour.

‘Along with the danger and adventures, there are also some everyday aspects – a floor squeegee, toilet paper, cotton wool buds – and without giving out the plot too much, it can be said that these things work surprisingly well in the fantasy world.’

– Helsingin Sanomat newspaper’s interview of the duo
 
Along with Fantasy Adventure, the celebrated duo have also written and illustrated other fun genre titles such as Tatu and Patu: Superheroes! and Tatu and Patu’s Adventures in Outer Space.

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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.