Veera in the Kitchen
By
Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen
The fourth Veera release from this gifted pair. A previous collaboration entitled Veera’s Best Ever Book of Vehicles won them Finland’s most important prize for illustrated works in 2000.
Veera in the Kitchen introduces children to the kitchen and cooking. Veera and her curious friends Tatu and Patu have occupied the kitchen, because they plan to make a pizza.
As she bakes, Veera teaches one or two things about kitchen utensils, mixers and blenders, crockery and cutlery, and not least about ingredients to the two boys, who are their normal selves and do everything either crazily or backwards.
At last the pizza is ready and the threesome sit down to eat, but before then they have to go through the matter of table manners. And what a lesson THAT is! The pupil is an adult and the teacher a child sitting in a highchair.
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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