White Ravens’98/Finland/62553
Lemmetty, Jukka (text/illus.)
Leo Z (Proper name)
Helsinki: Otava, 1996. [36pp]
ISBN 951-1-14423-5
City - Adventure
There are several Finnish illustrators, such as Hannu Taina and Kaarina
Kaila, who are known abroad. The bustling books of the caricaturist Mauri
Kunnas are also popular outside of Fin-
land. Making friends with this book may be more difficult because its
gaudy, bright colors frighten adults - but not necessarily children. With
wildly drawn lines and painfully piercing colors this book tells the story of
the absurd journey of a boy and a man through an urban Moloch, letting
children anticipate what kinds of discoveries they could make in their own
city. (8+)

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