Forest Field Notes by Venho & Pelliccioni continues to enchant Spain: the book will be a part of the Europa Illustra exhibition in Madrid next May.
Forest Field Notes by Johanna Venho & Sanna Pelliccioni (ill.) is out in Spanish in a beautiful edition by Gato Sueco, and will be featured in an upcoming exhibition in Madrid, Europa Ilustra, starting from May 9th, in which Pelliccioni will be representing Finland.
Forest Field Notes is a tender, magical story of the forest. It pays tribute to the imagination that can be awakened by nature. With Johanna Venho‘s poetic words and Sanna Pelliccioni‘s delicate illustrations, the book gently addresses the importance nearby nature has for children.
Spruce is a little girl who loves spending time in the forest, and is very observant: she sees trees, plants, flowers, but she has also seen elves, forest trolls, and fawns. All of her sightings and her experiences in the woods are collected in her field notebook.
One day she learns that her forest has been zoned, and will be cut down. Spruce decides to fight back, and starts tying notes to trees in protest. Suddenly, she finds an ally in a mysterious boy with green eyes and twigs in his hair. Who is the boy? And can they save the forest together?
In Finland, Forest Field Notes is published by Teos, and its foreign rights have already been sold in Oceania and Greece, as well as for World Spanish.
Forest Field Notes is followed by a second stand-alone book set in the same fictional universe, Travel Field Notes, in which Spruce and her family travel to Lapland by train to try and cheer up her mother, who has lost her job and slipped into depression. As she struggles and faces her difficulties, a hopeful ending is eventually in the cards, and Spruce documents everything in her field notebook, maintaining the same beautiful style of Forest Field Notes.
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