Moomin and the Favourite Thing

Moomin and the Favourite Thing PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0141352663
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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When Too-Ticky lends Moomintroll her most precious telescope, Moomin promises to take special care of it. But the telescope mysteriously vanishes! Poor Moomintroll doesn't know what to do - what will he tell Too-Ticky? Surely no-one in Moominvalley would have stolen it? This beautiful picture book is based on the art and characters created by Tove Jansson.

Moomin and the Favourite Thing

Moomin and the Favourite Thing PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0141352663
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
When Too-Ticky lends Moomintroll her most precious telescope, Moomin promises to take special care of it. But the telescope mysteriously vanishes! Poor Moomintroll doesn't know what to do - what will he tell Too-Ticky? Surely no-one in Moominvalley would have stolen it? This beautiful picture book is based on the art and characters created by Tove Jansson.

Moomin and the Favourite Thing

Moomin and the Favourite Thing PDF Author: Janice Thomson
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780141352671
Category : Moominland (Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A brand-new picture book based on Tove Jansson's original Moomin stories When Moominpappa gives Moomintroll a special telescope, Moomintroll is delighted, and doesn't want to have to share it with anyone. His friends slowly get bored and leave him alone. Suddenly, Moomintroll realises that nothing is as fun without your friends to enjoy it with - will he be able to make it up with them? 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.

Letters from Tove

Letters from Tove PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452963827
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 639

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A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding as it did in the letters to family, friends, and lovers that make up this volume, a veritable autobiography over the course of six decades—and the only one Jansson ever wrote. And just as letters carry a weight of significance in Jansson’s writing, those she wrote throughout her life reflect the gravity of her circumstances, the depth of her thoughts and feelings, and the critical moments of humor, sadness, and grace that mark an artist’s days. These letters, penned with characteristic insight and wit, provide an almost seamless commentary on Jansson’s life within Helsinki’s bohemian circles and on her island home. Shifting between hope and despair, yearning and happiness, they describe her immersion in art studies and her ascension to fame with the Moomins. They speak frankly of friendship and love, loneliness and solidarity, and also of politics, art, literature, and society. They summon a particular place and time reflected through a mind finely attuned to her culture, her world, and her own nature—all clearly put into biographical and historical context by the volume’s editors, both longtime friends of Tove Jansson—and, in the end, draw a complex, intimate self-portrait of one of the world’s most beloved authors.

Moomin and the Birthday Button

Moomin and the Birthday Button PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241333172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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The Moomin family and their friends are the delightful creation of Tove Jansson, and are full of a particular humour and magic that has enchanted generations of children and adults alike. Using the author's original characters and artwork, Moomin and the Birthday Button is part of a stunning new range of children's titles launching in the year of the Moomins' 65th anniversary celebrations. In this, the first of a new series of picture books, Moomintroll wakes up full of excitement. It's his birthday! But when it appears that his friends have forgotten all about his special day, Moomintroll is very upset. Even Moominmamma finds it hard to comfort him! Then there's a knock at the door . . . Who can it be, and what will happen next?

The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley

The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley PDF Author: Macmillan Adult's Books
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9781035038084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Moominpappa at Sea

Moominpappa at Sea PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 146687161X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Leave Moominvalley? Is it possible? Yes, even the Moomin family need a change of scenery sometimes, so they're off to live in a lighthouse on a tiny island. Here they find space to grow, and to do things they couldn't in their comfortable, cluttered valley home. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves.

Moomin and the Winter Snow

Moomin and the Winter Snow PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780141340593
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're missing the most magical fun . . . 'I don't want snow if it means no Snufkin.' Winter has come early to Moominvalley and it is time for Moomin's friend to travel south. Moomin worries whether Snufkin will miss him as much as he will miss Snufkin, and if so, how will he know? Look out for other Moomin books - Moomin and the Birthday Button Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure

Moominvalley in November

Moominvalley in November PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466871644
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Tove Jansson's Moomin characters and books are admired the world over. In the United States the series beginning with Finn Family Moomintroll (first published in English in 1945) has accumulated generations of fans. Since Farrar, Straus and Giroux began reissuing the books in 1989, grateful readers old and new have been thrilled to have the stories available again. At last the final installment is being published – oddly, the only book that features none of the Moomin family themselves, though it does take place at their house. There familiar characters converge – Snufkin, the Hemulen, Fillyjonk, and others – seeking out the Moomins' welcoming company, only to find them absent. All remain at the house, all have very different personalities that clash often, but something about their homey cohabitation during the icy winter changes each visitor in a gratifying way. As The Times Literary Supplement put it, Moominvalley in November is "possibly the cleverest of the Moomin books."

Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure

Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Moomin
ISBN: 9781914912665
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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It had been raining for days in Moominvalley, but now the clouds have cleared and it is a fine day for an adventure. Moomintroll is excited - he and Snorkmaiden and Little My, Moominpappa and Moominmamma, were all going to sail to Lonely Island to look for treasure! But by the time everyone is ready to leave, the sun had set and night had fallen. Would they ever be able to find any treasure just by the light of the moon?

Comet in Moominland

Comet in Moominland PDF Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466871571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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When Moomintroll learns that a comet will be passing by, he and his friend Sniff travel to the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to consult the Professors. Along the way, they have many adventures, but the greatest adventure of all awaits them when they learn that the comet is headed straight for their beloved Moominvalley.