Tatu and Patu’s Adventures in Outer Space

By Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen

A universally weird intergalactic adventure that thrusts forward at hyper-speed and plunges readers into orbits of laughter.

The wildly fast-paced and utterly wacky series of adventures continues. This time, the brothers from Oddsville have a go at sci-fi! Tatu and Patu take off on an adventure across the universe – their mission is to defend galactic peace and perform other important feats of space derring-do.

Tatu and Patu build their own spaceship for the trip. It’s not long before the interstellar adventure shuttle T. S. S. Bananas shoots up into the sky. Space cadet A. T. Lantic and star pilot Styrox Box head towards the furthest reaches of the universe. As the boys are checking whether there is air in the rings of Saturn, something bright, fast, and incredibly huge crashes into them. They just barely escape to the safety of the Star Union mother ship.

There, they encounter an enormous problem: a state of emergency has been announced throughout the entire universe, because an immense, unknown destructive force is moving through the solar systems. Planets have disappeared, and all orbits are completely out of whack. With the help of Lantic and Box and the little girl Lu-Rei, the Star Union resolves its urgent problem, but they need a healthy helping of Tatu and Patu’s ingenuity and courage as well as little Lu-Rei’s insights and a gigantic finger before peace is restored to the universe.

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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.