Moomin Book One
The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
$56.16
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2006
Summary
Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of the world’s largest newspaper, the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in forty countries. Moomin Book One is the first volume of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781894937801 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1894937805 |
| Author: | Tove Jansson |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 743g |
| Series: | Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip |
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Critics Review
“The Moomin universe is what you’d get if you took Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, Bill Watterson and Charles Schulz, and mixed them together with Finland’s cartoonishly long summer days and winter nights” —Myla Goldberg, NPR
“The experience of loneliness, unrequited love, insecurity, fear, separation, jealousy, and grief—Jansson was seen by her readers as someone who understood their inner lives.” —Frances Wilson, New York Review of Books
Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children’s book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins. The Moomins came to life in children’s books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.
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