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The Expedition
A band of intrepid explorers embarks on a voyage through a strange frontier filled with mystery and the human body.Donning his frock coat and ruffle collar, Tusseson documents everything that happens in his traveling by boat across the Stomach’s Stormy Sea, paddling through the Small Intestine’s Emerald Green Canals, camping at the Lungs (despite all the wind!), climbing the Muscle Mountains, escaping through the Nerve Forest to marvel at the night sky, Iris, reflected in the Pacific Tear Channel. As his fellow travelers return home one by one, Tusseson is left to carry on alone… but he won’t give up until he finds the Mystical Meadows of the Brain. Featuring lush and surreal illustrations, The Expedition renders the systems of the human body into wondrous landscapes that take readers on a fantastic voyage like no other.
40 pages, Hardcover
Published April 15, 2025
About the author
Tuvalisa Rangström
7 books2 followersTuvalisa Rangström är dramatiker, författare och skådespelare.
Sedan 2017 är hon adjunkterande dramaturg i det konstnärliga rådet på Drottningholms Slottsteater. Vid sidan om det arbetar hon med att skriva dramatik och operalibretton.
2017 debuterade hon som barnboksförfattare med boken Oväder tillsammans med Clara Dackenberg på Mirando bokförlag.
Tuvalisa har en bakgrund som konstvetare och intresserar sig för konst i alla former. Så även Häxkonst.
“Att se världen magiskt kräver övning. Precis som alla andra konstnärer måste den som ägnar sig åt häxkonst öva och förfina sitt hantverk. En bra häxa blir man inte bara hokus pokus. Så en handbok i häxkonst tror jag är en bra start för den som ändå vill försöka.”
Sedan 2017 är hon adjunkterande dramaturg i det konstnärliga rådet på Drottningholms Slottsteater. Vid sidan om det arbetar hon med att skriva dramatik och operalibretton.
2017 debuterade hon som barnboksförfattare med boken Oväder tillsammans med Clara Dackenberg på Mirando bokförlag.
Tuvalisa har en bakgrund som konstvetare och intresserar sig för konst i alla former. Så även Häxkonst.
“Att se världen magiskt kräver övning. Precis som alla andra konstnärer måste den som ägnar sig åt häxkonst öva och förfina sitt hantverk. En bra häxa blir man inte bara hokus pokus. Så en handbok i häxkonst tror jag är en bra start för den som ändå vill försöka.”
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May 7, 2025
Completely bonkers in the best way possible.
December 1, 2025
Look at the cover art and know where we're going. Open then to end papers that display the human body in all its glory.
Well, here we go, on an adventure through the human body: the digestive system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the nervous system, the skeletal system, and stopping just short of the brain.
Suspend reason if you are an adult reader for there's a childlike logic to this adventure. A wonderfully diverse ensemble make up the team. Four (or five?) adventurers ~~ just what you'd need: a doctor, a cook, and an old lady, accompany the guide-narrator... oh, and a mysterious diaphanous blue angel-ghost figure ~~ take off on a journey through the human body. The doctor appears as an infant wrapped in a white snuggly head to toe. The cook is some sort of amphibian character who seems to morph on occasion (so maybe more chameleon?). "The old lady had many wrinkles and had been old for a very long time." The guide is... well, 'guidish' looking with a proper guide face, hiking boots, and a heavy turtleneck sweater tucked in to his knee-high hikers' socks.
The troupe has all the necessities that show up when needed, for example, a gramophone at the departing station, a tent to camp at night (of course), tea for the train ride to the lungs and peaches for snack time, an accordion for campfire entertainment, even a stable of horses when strength and hooves are required. Equipment the guide will need to assume his important role (as guide) show up at all the necessary times: binoculars, a sextant, a hiking pole, and a pickax to climb the vertebrae.
Of most intriguing interest are depictions of the various "rooms" of each body system shown as background patterned art. As it should be, much of the human body is chocolate cosmos red fading to deep garnet. Patterns of the scary nervous system are appropriately electrified and the skeletal system, bone white.
The illustrations require close examination and critical interpretation. Brilliant children and creative artists will thrill at Bartilsson's interpretation of balloon field Alveoli and the zigzaggy nervous system.
What a wonderful adventure awaits the most discerning art appreciator and out-of-the-box thinker from this Swedish import.
Well, here we go, on an adventure through the human body: the digestive system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the nervous system, the skeletal system, and stopping just short of the brain.
Suspend reason if you are an adult reader for there's a childlike logic to this adventure. A wonderfully diverse ensemble make up the team. Four (or five?) adventurers ~~ just what you'd need: a doctor, a cook, and an old lady, accompany the guide-narrator... oh, and a mysterious diaphanous blue angel-ghost figure ~~ take off on a journey through the human body. The doctor appears as an infant wrapped in a white snuggly head to toe. The cook is some sort of amphibian character who seems to morph on occasion (so maybe more chameleon?). "The old lady had many wrinkles and had been old for a very long time." The guide is... well, 'guidish' looking with a proper guide face, hiking boots, and a heavy turtleneck sweater tucked in to his knee-high hikers' socks.
The troupe has all the necessities that show up when needed, for example, a gramophone at the departing station, a tent to camp at night (of course), tea for the train ride to the lungs and peaches for snack time, an accordion for campfire entertainment, even a stable of horses when strength and hooves are required. Equipment the guide will need to assume his important role (as guide) show up at all the necessary times: binoculars, a sextant, a hiking pole, and a pickax to climb the vertebrae.
Of most intriguing interest are depictions of the various "rooms" of each body system shown as background patterned art. As it should be, much of the human body is chocolate cosmos red fading to deep garnet. Patterns of the scary nervous system are appropriately electrified and the skeletal system, bone white.
The illustrations require close examination and critical interpretation. Brilliant children and creative artists will thrill at Bartilsson's interpretation of balloon field Alveoli and the zigzaggy nervous system.
What a wonderful adventure awaits the most discerning art appreciator and out-of-the-box thinker from this Swedish import.
February 25, 2025
I don't know exactly how to categorize The Expedition. On the one hand, characters are on an exploratory mission through the systems of the human body. On the other, the characters are fantastical - phantasmagorical - beings who ride horses and eat peaches as they venture through other worldly terrain. Reading this made me feel off balance, like I didn't know quite where I stood. Maybe that's the point: enjoy the journey through life, marvel at what surrounds you, question, imagine, be curious, and be comfortable in your own skin.
The Expedition is written as a travelogue accompanied by the most exquisite illustrations. And the end papers commence and close the story, so pay attention to what they depict. The Expedition is a work of Swedish art.
The Expedition is written as a travelogue accompanied by the most exquisite illustrations. And the end papers commence and close the story, so pay attention to what they depict. The Expedition is a work of Swedish art.
May 2, 2025
A strikingly unique reading experience, to say the least. A group of characters journey through the human body, but not in an educational sort of way. The various organs and systems function more as a launchpad for the imagination. There’s a very childlike logic here combined with a bit of humdrum adult seriousness in the travelogue narration. It is an odd recipe, clearly something originally created outside American publishing, and all the more memorable for it.
I picked this up off the shelf because someone once told me that ‘expedition’ is too tricky a word for a picture book. I’m not sure this work would convince them otherwise, but I still feel a little bit vindicated!
I picked this up off the shelf because someone once told me that ‘expedition’ is too tricky a word for a picture book. I’m not sure this work would convince them otherwise, but I still feel a little bit vindicated!
May 12, 2025
In this strangely fascinating picture book originally published in Sweden four adventures take a trip through the human body. Although they have guides along the way, the journey is far from easy. The illustrations are striking, allowing readers glimpses into the stomach, the small intestine, the lungs, the muscles, and even through the muscles. Many youngsters will be enthralled by the journey. After all, how many of us have wondered what it might be like to be inside our own bodies and be part of the circulatory system or climb up along the vertebrae? This particular expedition is like nothing you've ever read or seen before.
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May 6, 2025makes me wish Justice was here to discuss
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May 29, 2025a delightfully odd tour of the inside of our bodies, beautiful illustrations
August 18, 2025
Print way to small to wade through!!!
September 4, 2025
What a special little book
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December 23, 2025Absolutely bonkers. A wild imaginative ride that is largely indescribable.
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