Karoliina Blackburn 2008: Hyvää, hyvää yötäIllustrated by Tuomas Mäkelä
Bear Eikka Messevä's best friend Canada goose Siiri is moving south for the winter. Eikka is going to miss her very much, so he tries to glue the leaves back to the branches and hopes that winter won't come. Siiri leaves, Eikka is supposed to start hibernation, but he cannot.
Eikka meets rabbit family and herd of reindeer, but they just irritate him. Finally gang of Foxes are so energetic and get him to "fall asleep".
Hibernation is talviuni in Finnish, which directly translated is winter sleep. Many Finns have sleeping problems. This book doesn't actually apply to the humans.
This book has classic streotypes of the animals: rabbits have many kids, reindeers are kind of goofy and foxes are quick and sly.
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