Tatu and Patu: The Story of Our Life

By Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen

This magnificent book is the 20th book in the Tatu and Patu series! It tells you almost everything you ever wanted to know about the oddball heroes.

This book follows the brothers’ lives from their early days to the present moment. It also reveals how the Oddville boys became inventors and what kind of sacrifices they have had to make for their different explorations. 

Along with Tatu and Patu, other characters, who know the boys well, also get to talk about different moments from Tatu and Patu’s lives. One of these is Veera, their good friend from the first four books which introduced the famous duo for the first time. The book also has an in-depth interview by Cassu Linssi-Ludenoff, who asks the boys what success means to them. 

The book even reveals why Tatu and Patu love ice cream, who their mother is, and if Tatu truly needs glasses… And everyone will surely be interested to know more about Oddville, that mysterious place that Tatu and Patu have made famous. 

Join the Oddville boys for plenty of fun facts about their lives, and to see odd incidents from behind the scenes in previous Tatu and Patu books. This is a pastiche of fan fiction told in the most hilarious way.

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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.