#Mauri Kunnas

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Hyvää Kalevalan päivää!

Happy Kalevala Day!

[nanoa1foryou]

”Kirjailija Mauri Kunnas, sinun kirjasi varmasti rohkaisevat lapsia lukemaan, mutta löytyykö sieltä jotain muita rohkaisun merkkejä?”

”Ei.”

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"No, te olette opettaneet lapsille paljon, mutta ovatko he vuorostaan opettaneet teille yhtään mitään?"

"Mulle ei."

Ja niin Mauri Kunnas voitti linnan juhlat 2022.

[amatesura]

Mauri Kunnas, Nyrok City: ABBA HELP! 7/77

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[languagesperkele]

More on Mauri Kunnas. I saw someone use the words "by modern standards" in reference to how the Sámi are not represented well in Joulupukki ja noitarumpu/Santa Claus and the Magic Drum, and I have to say I have zero reason to believe Mauri Kunnas would choose to make it different if he made the book (which the movie is based on) now. In fact I feel like there's some reason to believe he's just another bigoted white person who doesn't give a shit about ethnic minorities or indigenous peoples or people of colour.

Have a couple of pictures taken from another one of his books, Kaikkien Aikojen Avaruuskirja (published in 2007, a whole 11 years after Joulupukki ja noitarumpu

what's that in the bg? a confederate flag? makes sense to casually put on there, after all what else would you expect to see on a fictional, future version of Mercury. /s

How to depict alien species living on a planet in a solarsystem with double stars (who are obviously very irritable because the sun is always shining).

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Tulee ihan mieleen Mauri Kunnaksen Nyrok city-sarjakuvat, niisähän esiintyy mm. Piitles

Yhdysvailtain ekspresidentti Tsoots Dabuljuu Bus

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Mun "haul" Suomesta 🌟

Jotkut asiat minulle ja joitain lahjoja perheelle ja ystäville !

Salmiakki (yksi äidilleni, yksi isälleni ja yksi minulle- me rakastamme salmiakkia paljon lol), Muumipehmot (Catelle ja Emille), Muumi-avaimenperät (Catelle ja Alelle), Muumitarrat minulle, suomalainen kalenteri (Mauri Kunnas) ja J.p Ahonen sarjakuvaromaani, koska rakastan hänen taidettaan!

Kirjakaupassa ei ollut "Beelzeebub" sarjakuvaa, joten hankin toisen hänen kirjoistaan. Näin myös Muumi-kaupan Helsingissä, ja ostin PALJON asiat, tiedän nyt rakastan muumeja… Minulla on nyt paljon opiskeltavaa, opettajani lähettivät minulle harjoituksia ja oppitunteja, kun olin lomalla. Minulla on paljon luettavaa suomeksi ja olen niin iloinen 🫡

((Tarvitsen edelleen "translatoria", mutta olen iloinen, että voin ajatella/kirjoittaa lauseita nyt)

As always, if you see any mistakes or want to give me any tips to improve my finnish, please feel free to comment under my post or send me an ask! I'm always happy to learn! (´∀｀)♡

[fonulyn]

this post about vocabulary and reading also reminded me: when i was in high school i bought The Three Musketeers in German, because I’d already read it like a dozen times in Finnish and once in English and I wanted to try if I’d understand anything at all in German. it was such a fun experience because, no, I did not understand much per se, I understood maybe half of the words on a page. but at the same time, I’d read the book so many times before that I knew what was going on, and I ended up following it just fine :’D and I did learn some new words, too! 

we also had this course in high school where we read childrens books in different languages. like the same exact book (we read Mauri Kunnas, can recommend :D) in Finnish, Swedish, German and English, and then we compared the translations. it was one of the most interesting things I’ve ever done because the translations were different, they emphasized very different things (and the Swedish ones often came up with stuff that wasn’t even in the source material lmao). 

same with when I read The Gods Themselves in English for the first time after only having read it in Finnish (...several times lol) before. I have this favorite part in the book and I was waiting and waiting for it and ... then realized I’d missed it. the English text had other parts I loved and felt impactful but that particular one that I’d always treasured in Finnish? I didn’t even properly notice it in the English one.

just. languages, man! languages! 

[moominvalley-lifestyle]

Snöbarnens Julsagor | Christmas Eve, 2022.

The one-hour-long show includes seven beloved Christmas stories. In addition to the Moomin story there is Hans Christian Andersen’s The Swineherd and a story based on Mauri Kunnas’ book Twelve Gifts for Santa Claus. 

The programme will be shown in Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland on Christmas Eve / Christmas Day.

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Siellä on myös ihan paras Herra Hakkaraisen talo.

Ei tumpussa vaan facessa, mutta tuli mieleen että näinköhän joku Sastamalan rekryosasto on ostanut oikeudet käyttää Kunnaksen kirjan kansikuvaa omassa mainonnassaan, vai onko tää enemmän "kuva googlesta" -tyyppinen ratkaisu

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[mygeekcorner]

50, 60 and 121! for that book recs ask game 😘

Thank you love! I'll try to think of books I haven't used for my answers yet

50 a book that made you cry a LOT

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins made me cry like a little bitch. I remember getting to the end and just full-on sobbing hard to breathe kind of crying, and then I had to catch a bus to go meet a friend so I just tried to cry quieter about it, but like the first 20 minutes after getting to her place I was still a mess. Good thing she had read the series as well and knew what was up, she just let me chill in the corner until I could socialise lol

60 a book that you think about at 3am

Matched by Ally Condie tends to invade my thoughts more than a book with a premise like that has any right to do. But there is something about how she unwittingly set off her own chain of events that was supposed to change the world forever but still somehow doesn't and like I know it has been trashed for being one of the dystopian ya novels that came after THG made the genre big, but it meant a lot to me when it came out.

121 a book that makes you nostalgic

Oh there are many but I'm starting to realise that not all of them are books I've actually read myself. Fuck it, Vampyrfarfars Berättelser (Vampire grandpas stories) by Mauri Kunnas was one of my favourite childrens books when I was little and when I visit my parents I will usually make an effort to find it again because it's just so ridiculous and I love all the little takes on classic horrors and mysteries.

Like their version of The Hound of Baskerville - in finnish and swedish basker is the word for beret - so here it's about a dog stealing peoples hats cause they're just so Fashionable. Even as an adult I can't hear Baskerville without thinking about that story lol

Well 2 out of 3 books were new mentions entirely, and I hadn't used hunger games for the crying question yet so I still feel like I almost got it lol thank you for playing! :D

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Joulunajan mainoksia MTV3:lta vuodelta 1998

Aikakone: Maa CD ja kasetti

Stillco johtokotelo

Kesport InterSport

Suomalainen Kirjakauppa: Raija Oranen: Rahasta ja rakkaudesta

Sarah Brightman: Eden CD

Avainlippu: Hyvää Suomalaista Joulua

Havi kynttilät

Shelcore lelut

Lahden kaupunginorkesteri: Joulun Ihmemaa CD ja kasetti

Multi-Tabs

Kansallinen kirjakauppa: Mauri Kunnas: Puhveli-Billin Lännensirkus, Bert: Villi ja vapaa, Robert Ludlum: Mataresen Tuho, Laila Hietamies: Kylä järven sylissä, "Runsaasti CD-romppuja ja ohjelmia", Cross kynät

Roseanne Show

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Mauri Kunnas, Nyrok City Suosikki N:o 11, 1979

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