The family was gradually filling up with schoolchildren — and the storytelling headed off to school as well.
Curiously, a bit of knitting slipped into the tale, even though my own acute “knitting fever” didn’t strike until years later.
It seems I may have had some fortune-teller’s talent when it comes to band life too.
These days our living room is regularly overtaken by all sorts of “Itsy-Bitsy Spiders” and “Cricket-Cricket Chirpers.”
Guitars were already part of our world back then, and they naturally found their way into the story. Johanna Häkkilä once again created the illustrations and assembled the whole work..