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From Publishers Weekly
The fanciful Moominfolk take to the stage as only they can in this series of droll escapades. Ages 7-10.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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“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
“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 with the insights that come from adulthood.”—Sir Terry Pratchett
“Clever, gentle, witty, and completely engrossing.”—Jeff Smith, author of Bone
“It’s not just Tove Jansson’s wonderfully strange fairytale world that so appeals but also her beautiful line work and exquisite sense of design.”—Lauren Child
“[Tove Jansson] is a master.”—The Times Literary Supplement (London)
“The most original works for children to be published since the Pooh books, and possibly, since Alice.”—Saturday Review
“You will declare yourself a citizen of Moominvalley and call the stories your own—the Moomin world is that compelling.”—Riverbank Review
“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 with the insights that come from adulthood.”—Sir Terry Pratchett
“Clever, gentle, witty, and completely engrossing.”—Jeff Smith, author of Bone
“It’s not just Tove Jansson’s wonderfully strange fairytale world that so appeals but also her beautiful line work and exquisite sense of design.”—Lauren Child
“[Tove Jansson] is a master.”—The Times Literary Supplement (London)
“The most original works for children to be published since the Pooh books, and possibly, since Alice.”—Saturday Review
“You will declare yourself a citizen of Moominvalley and call the stories your own—the Moomin world is that compelling.”—Riverbank Review
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MOOMINMAMMA was sitting on the front steps in the sun, rigging a model bark schooner. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
MOOMINMAMMA was sitting on the front steps in the sun, rigging a model bark schooner. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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Simply a Classic.,
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This review is from: Moominsummer Madness (Paperback)
The Moomin books are extremely unique in the realm of children's literature. They are clean, endearing, thoughtful, a little dark, and always utterly enchanting. I am in high school now, and I still love to read these books. I first recieved a copy of Finn Family Moomintroll from an aunt who read and loved them in HER childhood, spent in Japan. I devoured it, and promptly begged my mother to find more. Now, several years later, I am still held spellbound by these books. They are quirky, charming, full of clever witticisms and simple, wonderful turns of phrase, and are among the many hidden gems which so many cynical youngsters will scorn for lack of blood. This book, though contains plenty of fun and even a little revenge (provided by Snufkin, of course,) but of course the characters are forever polite. Better yet, they set a good example for kids without shoving sticky-sweet morals down their throats. In addition, by setting the story around a theatre - which the Moomin family knows absolutely nothing about - Jansson gives the reader a humorous edge over the characters, which helps keep the story moving and the reader amused. These books should be introduced to young, thoughtful children, older, shy children, college students, people going through mid-life crises, and/or those in rest homes. They are to be read in a comfy chair before a fire on a gray, rainy day, or with the snow coming down and a mug of cocoa. These books are only for those who have open, quiet minds, and for people ready to be enchanted and amazed.
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What I think of Moomin Summer Madness,
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This review is from: Moominsummer Madness (Paperback)
It is such an excellent book, I plan to read it over and over again. I recommend it to everybody - children and adults alike (it was actually an adult who recommended it to me first!!) I'm going to make my mum read it too. It is a magical book and I now want to read all the moomin books. Please give it a try.
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The best of the moomin books,
By Moominoid "moominoid" (Upstate NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Moominsummer Madness (Paperback)
This is probably the best of the moomin books - it has some of the best moomin pictures and is completely nuts! :)
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