Tove Jansson was a trailblazing illustrator and author—and the inventor of the beloved Moomins, the central characters of her ...

Though the Moomin books are beloved in part for their beautiful illustrations and whimsy, they often dealt with serious issues — in the first two books, Moominvalley faces natural disasters that ...

A giant picnic and floating artworks are just two of the free family activities in Gloucester to celebrate 80 years of the iconic Moomin stories. Gloucester Guildhall has been picked as one of four UK ...

Written and illustrated by Jansson, the first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, was published in 1945 and ultimately became the bedrock for an entire creative world.In the story, the ...

The book was first published in creator Tove Jansson’s native Swedish in 1945. However, the first Moomin book to have an English edition was in fact the third of the Moomin books, Trollkarlens ...

By understanding the biographical elements of Jansson’s life, Laurila said, “you realize that many of the characters in the Moomin books were inspired by the people around her, and by her life.

There is no happy ending, and the readers who drank out of their Moomin mugs and slept beneath their Moomin duvet covers felt angry and cheated. But Jansson, aged 56, was at last free of her ...

A Gloucester venue will host a new public artwork in celebration of the first Moomin book's 80th anniversary. ... Tell us which stories we should cover in Gloucestershire. Contact form. Contact form.

From this perspective, the vast Moomin industry today goes against the spirit of the works. And yet. The same book in which Snufkin spoke this way is also a book (whose Finnish original title is The ...

A book cover (left) and cover of political magazine Garm, both illustrated by Jansson. Photos courtesy of Moomin Characters Ltd. Among Zambra’s favorite items included in the exhibit, he said, are the ...

A Gloucester venue will host a new public artwork in celebration of the first Moomin book's 80th anniversary. Gloucester Guildhall is one of four UK venues that will commemorate The Moomins and ...