Veera’s Best Ever Book of Vehicles
By
Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen
A colourful and fun picture-book about modes of transport to delight of the new generation of families with young children.
Veera’s mischievous imaginary pals Tatu and Patu find themselves in an argument right in the middle of a game when they disagree on how vehicles really work. Veera suggests the best way of resolving the spat is for all of them to take a bike-ride to find out.
On the trip our trusty trio encounter a whole host of vehicles, each more amazing than the last: different kinds of cars, trains, tramcars and the metro; aeroplanes, a hot-air balloon, mobile cranes and other machines, and a veitable fleet of different ships and boats.
But what do Tatu and Patu think would be the ideal, the perfect form of transport?
Veera’s Best Ever Book of Vehicles is not all about steel and engines, either. On their cycling excursion Veera, Tatu and Patu show examples of safety and of getting around without polluting the environment. The book’s hilarious and beautifully-crafted illustrations are packed with colourful, wild and ingenious details to please all ages.
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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