In this nicely old-fashioned children’s novel the measured language and expression are pleasing both to the eye and the ear. Nothing here will go over a child’s head the essence of the book is accessible to all. Krohn is supremely good at writing literature that knows no age limits. Ten-year-old Orvokki (Violet) is a delivery girl for a florist like her, the reader is incited to marvel with naive curiosity at life’s various wonders. This novel, too, is about the encounter between man and nature. It is great news that Leena Krohn has not abandoned the young readership she first addressed through her first book Vihreä vallankumous (‘The green revolution’, 1970), an ecocritical title that also touched on active citizenship.
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