Tatu and Patu at Summer Camp

By Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen

The perfect book that will get you into the summer camp spirit!

Do you want to join the coolest summer camp of all time? Well, hop on board with Tatu and Patu as their camp bus pulls out on to the road.

Excited Timppa is going to summer camp for the first time and has decided to treasure every moment of the special week in his camp diary. Already on the bus ride, he befriends a fun and odd duo Tatu and Patu, who are also first-timers but ready to enjoy camp life to the fullest. However, Timppa notices that there is something unusual about this duo’s actions that are a bit peculiar and cause some bizarre situations throughout the week. Why do they try to plant trees in a chair? And why do they want to divide the tent into sectors?

Summer camp is awesome with all its many fun activities such as sleeping in a tent, baking pancakes, swimming in the lake, exploring the forest, admiring beautiful sunsets, sitting by the glowing campfire in the evening and of course making new friends. Feeling homesick now and then makes Timppa a little emotional but luckily camp instructor Nora and Tatu and Patu know how to cheer him up. And what would summer camp be without a little excitement like almost getting lost with Tatu and Patu in the forest?

Tatu and Patu at Summer Camp is a perfect book to allay anxieties about heading off to a new place and having to make new friends while being away from home. When the Oddville duo heads off to a week of summer camp for the first time mishaps and bizarre incidents ensue and the usual hilarious antics follow. Summer camp with Tatu and Patu is something totally different and it all adds up to the best week ever for Timppa and the other campers.  

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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.