Book Review | How to tell children about the destruction of nature? The book by Laura Ertimo and Mari Ahokoivu answers this difficult question perfectly and raises the question of why this has not been done for adults.

Non-fiction writer Laura Ertimon and illustrator Mari Ahokoivun Time Travel! offers such clear information text and illustrative boxes that one begins to wonder why a similar book has not been made directly for adults, writes critic Vesa Rantama.

Children’s book

Laura Ertimo & Mari Ahokoivu: Time to travel! Lotta, Kasper and the riddle of natural loss. 55 pp. Into.

Nonfiction Laura Ertimon and illustrator Mari Ahokoivun previous book for children and young people Miracle air introduced a duo of Lota and Kasper, tired of the inability of adults to explain the hot weather, and set out to find out for themselves. The work is an exceptionally successful popularization of difficult knowledge, for which more adult readers would be hoped for – that is how much the facts of the general climate debate are often lost.

The rights to the book have been sold to fifteen countries, so perhaps there is no oversupply of similar works in the world.

In the new in his book, the authors are on the verge of an even more challenging challenge – how to explain the loss of nature, which is happening more than climate change beyond the reach of everyday life and our five senses? While one can still rely on one line of story, the relationship between emissions and carbon sinks, with climate change, biodiversity is a tremendously complex network, parts of which can at most be illustrated through individual narratives.

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Like its predecessor Time to travel! has managed to choose the right examples that are suitable for multi-age readers. The work also analyzes and criticizes its own choices – for example, the fluffy and sweet Saimaa ringed seal is an excellent mascot, but on the other hand it was still very hated during the last wars.

And despite the plurality of the object, the rise or destruction of the ring can only tell a microscopic part of the story of diversity.

Between in the work, one rises from the surface of the earth to heights, for example, to admire our planet from interstellar darkness. The ascent to a mountain built of carbon dioxide emissions also perfectly illustrates the connection between the fate of just about everything on a fragile planet. Overdose can be explained to children with apple juice: “You pick up a jar from the cupboard, tear it open and pour the whole jar into one glass. Can a liter fit in two decis? No. Well why did you pour too much juice? Everyone does that! Someone lute on the floor. ”

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L, 4, was particularly interested in the fossil elf and the climatic fairy (“the fossil and air-conditioning fairy”), who arrange time trips for Kasper and Lota to the island of Sulawesi as well as 43,000 BC. to sulawesi pigs like the biologist who passed away in Helsinki in 2010 Ilkka Hanskia to meet.

It may not be possible for a child under school age to read the information boxes in their entirety, but the information will stick to his or her journey as if unnoticed. And questions. Dad, how can bears, ringed seals and otters be related? Will dinosaurs ever come back? The vacancy of a literary critic does not seem to qualify as a respondent.

Time to travel! offers such clear information text and illustrative boxes that one begins to wonder why a similar book has not been made directly for adults. On the fiction side, you can find, for example Emma Puikkonen fine Black mirror, where oil takes on the role of multiplier.

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For children in addition to the works of the Ertamo / Ahokoivu duo, there is also an enviable offer Tiina Sarjan, Mikko Posion and Henna Ryynänen picture books Who took the trash? and Where did the electricity go?, which go a long way in explaining urban infrastructure. The target group directs these works to a certain narrow ideal length, where many story lines are left out and the simplified solutions are moved too smoothly from an adult’s point of view.

So the 500-page comic book of nature loss was immediately ordered from the authors, thank you!

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