Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and went on to write and illustrate many books for adults and children. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s, just for fun, and in 1945 he became a character in a children'story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books, which began with The Moomins and the Great Flood in 1945, closely followed by Comet in Moominland in 1946, Finn Family Moomintroll in 1948 and six more Moomin adventures. During the winter months Tove lived and worked in Helsinki, but in the summertime she stayed on a beautiful remote island in the Gulf of Finland with her long-term partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä. Tove Jansson received many prestigious awards during her lifetime, including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001, aged eighty-seven.
"There is, in short, everything in the Moon books: giant comets and
secret caves and tree houses and stilts and magic-carpet clouds and
amusement parks run by despotic practical-joking kings and time
machines and ski instructors." -"Harper's
""We need Moominland for its gentle pace, its sense of beauty and
awe, and its spirit of friendliness and empathy--now more than
ever." -"The Horn Book
""These charming fantasies are propelled by a childlike curiosity
and filled with quiet wisdom, appealing geniality, and a satisfying
sense of self-discovery." -School Library Journal.com
"If you had no shame reading "Harry Potter" on the subway, there's
no need to hide Tove Jansson's witty, whimsically illustrated
Finnish series." -Daily Candy
"The Moomin books make for both splendid bedtime read-alouds and
solitary savoring." -"Wall Street Journal" "It's more than forty
years since Jansson's Moomintrolls first appeared. I found the
writing and invention as appealing
“The Moomin books make for both splendid bedtime read-alouds and
solitary savoring.”—"Wall Street Journal"
“A sense of gentle mystery haunts this seventh book in the
Moomintroll series. The Moomin family moves to an island where an
abandoned lighthouse will not light, where frightened trees move of
their own accord through the island’s rocky soil, and where we
remember just how good a sandwich tastes in the middle of the
night.”—"American Bookseller"
“Enter a world of fantasy that has such a life of its own that the
Moomin family’s island adventure will always be a part of
you!”—"Daily Herald"
“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.
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