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100 1 _aHänninen, Kaarlo,
_d1876-1939
245 1 0 _aEläinten olympialaiset ja muita satuja
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-03
505 0 _aEläinten olympialaiset: Eläinten olympialaiset. Olympialaistoimikunta. Norsut raivaustöissä. Ajan ja matkan mittarit hankitaan. Mitä teitä ja miten eläimet matkustivat kilpailuihin. Vastaanotto. Kilpajuoksu. Hitauskilpailu. Toinen kilpailupäivä. Kirpun urotyö. Korkeuslento. Pituuslento. Pökkäyskilpailut. Puskusilla. Juhlat Tapiolassa. Uintikilpailut Petsamon vuonossa. Kun Suomen karhu voitti painimestaruuden -- Kaksi jättiläistä -- Lahorin prinssi -- Koivu ja kuhankeittäjä.
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Eläinten olympialaiset ja muita satuja" by Kaarlo Hänninen is a collection of fairy tales written in the early 20th century. It follows a grand, humorous animal world that stages its own Olympic Games to keep up with humans, led by the Bear as forest king with the Fox and Wolf as organizers, and contestants arriving from every continent. Expect playful competitions, sly jokes, and a mix of nature lore and Finnish folklore as creatures race, leap, fly, and boast for glory. The opening of the book sets the scene on a Lapland fell where the Bear convenes all animals and declares the Animal Olympics to counter human prowess. A committee (Bear, Wolf, Fox, and others, plus birds and even insects) designs events—running, wrestling, long and high jumping, flight contests, slow race, head-butting and pushing, and swimming—while elephants and beavers build tracks and the Fox invents quirky measures (distance by a cock’s step, time by a cuckoo’s call). Delegations travel to Petsamo by ingenious routes—whales ferry Austra­lians, herds stream across Asia and Africa under Tiger and Lion—then a grand reception unfolds; wrestling is postponed to avoid early quarrels. The first day brings a dramatic footrace won by a European greyhound ahead of a kangaroo and an ostrich, though the timing collapses in the excitement; a slow race crowns the snail. On the next day, amid Tapio’s forest-fairy fanfare, the flea crushes the long-jump, the condor wins the high-altitude flight, and the common swift takes the distance flight to the Heinäsaaret (with a comic albatross-and-tern incident), and the text moves toward the head-butting contests. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Osakeyhtiö Valistus, 1929
653 _aAnimals -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFairy tales -- Finland
653 _aChildren's stories, Finnish
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76217
999 _c116942
_d116942