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Finn Family Moomintroll (Puffin Books)

Finn Family Moomintroll (Puffin Books)

by ToveJansson (Author)

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    Illustrated 1973

    $3.41
Synopsis

Poor little chap! He had been turned into a very strange animal indeed ...Although they're small, fat and shy creatures; Moomins have the most amazing adventures. It all begins when Moominpappa tries on a magic hat that makes exciting and funny things happen.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 157
 Publisher: Puffin
Published: 30 Aug 1973
ISBN 10: 014030150X
ISBN 13: 9780140301502
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
The Moomin books make for both splendid bedtime read-alouds and solitary savoring. - Wall Street Journal
Jansson's evocations of nature are powerfully succinct. . . . This is a terrific book for reading aloud. - The Washington Post Book World
A lost treasure now rediscovered. . . . A surrealist masterpiece. -Neil Gaiman
Jansson was a genius of a very subtle kind. These simple stories resonate with profound and complex emotions that are like nothing else in literature for children or adults: intensely Nordic, and completely universal. -Philip Pullman
Tove Jansson is undoubtedly one of the greatest children's writers there has ever been. She has the extraordinary gift of writing books that are very clearly for children, but can also be enjoyed when the child, like me, is over sixty and can still find new pleasures with the insights that come from adulthood. -Sir Terry
Author Bio
Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland's stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into over 40 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.