Original title: Aika matka! Lotta, Kasper ja luontokadon arvoitus
Author: Laura Ertimo
Illustrator: Mari Ahokoivu
Published: 2021
Publisher: Into
Genre: Non-Fiction
Pages: 48
Part of a series: Weird Weather
Reading material:
English synopsis, Full English translation, Finnish PDF
How has humanity survived this long? How can we, and other species, survive in the future? A much-needed book that helps make sense of the biodiversity crisis!
- Tieto-Lauri Prize Winner 2022 – Best Finnish Non-Fiction Children’s Title!
- Nominated for the Finlandia Award in 2021!
- Sequel to Weird Weather, sold to 18 countries!
- Mari Ahokoivu won the Puupäähattu Comic Book Award 2023
Lotta and Kasper keep seeing new worrisome news: dying bees, endangered animals, plastic in the Mariana Trench and on the glaciers of Antarctica, rivers polluted by mines, forest fires...
The children realize that even if the problems of climate change were solved, Mother Nature would still be in trouble! Climate change is only one part of an escalating environmental crisis. How will we survive?
Now retired fossil gremlin suggests that Lotta and Kasper set out on a grand journey through time in search of threads that may connect the past to the present and provide solutions for the future.
With the gremlin as their guide, the children find clues about the great changes that life has undergone in the past and how life has continued after major catastrophes. Through their journey, they come to see the roots of the current situation, understand why solving it is so tricky and learn how the human species has overcome previous crises to survive to this day.
Laura Ertimo has undertaken a challenging yet important task - to write for children about the biodiversity crisis and the problems arising from it. The topics themselves are complex, but the time travel layout and engaging comic strips assist in understanding, whereas the pictures encourage children to look into the issues at hand.
- Anneli Veskimägi, Avita, Estonia
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Into (orig.)
ESTONIA: Kirjastus Avita
GERMANY: Cross Cult
HUNGARY: Tessloff & Babilon