Tove Jansson (1914-2001) was born in Helsinki and spent much of her life in Finland. She is the author of the Moomin books. Born into an artistic family--her father was a sculptor and her mother was a graphic designer and illustrator--Jansson studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, and L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In addition to her Moomin books, she also wrote several novels, drew comic strips and worked as a painter and illustrator. In 1966, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her body of work. Jansson had a studio in Helsinki but spent most of her time at her home on a small island called Klovharu.
"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 as ever. She has a thistledown
touch."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"The adventures of the easygoing Moomintrolls have all the
crispness and tart surprise of a lingonberry, thanks to Jansson's
ineffably light touch, her uncanny sensitivity to universal
childhood emotions, and her gift for terse, naturalistic
dialogue."--"Entertainment Weekly"
"A gentle, offbeat fantasy."--"The Horn Book"
"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 wit
“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 as ever. She has a
thistledown touch.”—"The Washington Post Book World"
“The adventures of the easygoing Moomintrolls have all the
crispness and tart surprise of a lingonberry, thanks to Jansson’s
ineffably light touch, her uncanny sensitivity to universal
childhood emotions, and her gift for terse, naturalistic
dialogue.”—"Entertainment Weekly"
“A gentle, offbeat fantasy.”—"The Horn Book"
“A lost treasure now rediscovered . . . A surrealist
masterpiece.”
"It's more than forty years since Jansson's Moomintrolls first
appeared. I found the writing and invention as appealing as ever.
She has a thistledown touch."--Michele Landsberg, "The Washington
Post Book World
"The adventures of the easygoing Moomintrolls have all the
crispness and tart surprise of a lingonberry, thanks to Jansson's
ineffably light touch, her uncanny sensitivity to universal
childhood emotions, and her gift for terse, naturalistic
dialogue."--"Entertainment Weekly
"This book in Jansson's series about the Moomins and their
friends-small, indescribable Scandinavian creatures-tells of their
adventures in trying to save themselves from a comet. A gentle,
offbeat fantasy." --"The Horn Book
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