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The Old Wooden Bucket
The eighth story in the book tells about
Tina Troll. Now, all Finns love nature, and
the members of the Troll family love nature
more than almost anyone, but Tina is the
most nature-loving one of all. And picking
berries every year - blueberries, cloudberries,
crowberries, raspberries, strawberries,
bog whortleberries, lingonberries and
cranberries (just to mention a few) - is
what she loves best. Find out more about
Tina and the beautiful unspoiled nature of
Lapland by reading the story!
Below you can see a picture of an old,
dead, standing pine tree. In Finland,
these old dead trees are so important
that they have a special name of their
own: kelo. Notice how the wood is twisted
around like a corkscrew and all the bark
bark has fallen off. There's an old tree like
this one in this story. It guards the forest
where Tina is sitting in the picture on the
cover of the book.
Picture © Ulla Etto