I'm a big fan of superficially cute things that turn out to be "angry tales of apocalypse," as Frances Wilson puts it. Hers ...

Putting the pages in a drawer, she forgot about them for the next six years until a friend suggested that they could, with pictures, be turned into a children’s book. The Moomins and the Great Flood, ...

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Home to the world’s only museum devoted to the endearing hippo-like trolls, this Scandinavian city is also a sauna capital ...

But these illustrations by the creator of The Moomins, Tove Jansson, capture the surreal spirit of the books. Jansson created the Moomins in 1939 - they first existed in a Swedish comic strip.

The company plans to open about 10 Moomin outlets mainly in large cities in the next five years. The Moomins are particularly popular in Japan, with several animated adaptations aired since the 1960s.

Finnish artist, illustrator and writer Tove Jansson is best known for her illustrated book series The Moomins. And while we might remember the Moomins books for their dreamy pictures and gentle ...

Miikkulainen wrote that she loves the white troll family, but admitted that it is hard to ignore the endless commercialisation of the Moomin brand in recent years. Tove Jansson's original Moomin works ...

In “Moominland Winter”, Moomintroll wakes from hibernation while the rest of his family slumber. He is forced to venture out into the snow alone and find a way through a strange and ...