In the picture book THIS IS FINLAND, by Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen, two youngsters named Tatu and Patu lead us through Finnish life and society like an ethnographic study or an alien race examining the strange way of earthlings. The book humorously describes Finnish peculiarities like the sauna and salmiakki, the evolution of Finnish society over the centuries, the demographics of modern urban Finland, and some famous figures in Finnish history.
An occasional resident of Helsinki, I bought this book as a gift for little nieces and nephews in another country, as I think it is pretty cute and sure to appeal to a range of ages. The one complaint I have is that many of the jokes won't make sense unless one has already lived in Finland for some time. Thus a foreign reader won't realize that the few parodies of Finland are indeed parodies and not an accurate description of the country. Still, it's an enjoyable book.