A very good for anyone who wants to read Kalevala! Nordic Hero Tales from the Kalevala by James Baldwin - Kalevala written into a story form instead of the traditional poem verse.Tales from a Finnish Tupa by James Cloyd Bowman & Margery Bianco - Finnish folklore stories.Mythologia Fennica Tarot - Contains 78 cards all based on Finnish folklore, Gods, Goddesses and monsters + guidebook.
Shamanism and Culture by Juha Pentikäinen. From those fallen pearls, wolves emerged, rising up from the soil. Like Wolf was created when a beautiful maiden sat under a tree comping her hair and some of her pearls rolled down on the ground. The book also contains myths of how different things and animals came to be. The Magic Songs of the Finns by Salakirjat/ Mythologia Fennica- The largest collection of Finnish folk magic ever assembled. Kalevala Guide by Irma-Riitta Järvinen - an encyclopedia of Kalevala and its characters, events and effects on Finnish culture. Kalevala (translated into multiple languages). While Finnish culture and native religion isn’t as popular as many other, there are books available in English: There’s luckily plenty of material for that as Finnish folklore and folk traditions the 2nd most widely recorded in the world right after Ireland :3 If you want to know more, you have to study yourself. 
The school covers only our national epoch and only from a point of literature, not the fact that it talks about old Gods, how the world was created and our native religion. You’re welcome! Many Finns don’t know about these things either as they’re not taught at schools. As a Finnish American I had no idea about the Lempo till you and thank you for this knowledge, I adore them!
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