Ilmari Tulimaa 2 hr 39 min read

Two children, out to buy bread in the hard summer of 1918, wander a forest path that leads them into an enchanted land of Finnish fairy-tale wonder.

Ilmari Tulimaa's 1918 Finnish children's fantasy sends its young heroes from wartime hardship into a realm of magic. Warm, imaginative, of its era. Read it for a charming Finnish storybook adventure, where a simple errand opens onto an enchanted world.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 39 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).