The Dangerous Journey
A Tale of Moomin Valley
$38.40
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
17 April 2018
Summary
Get swept away in this otherworldly adventure to Moominvalley through treacherous yet beautiful landscapes.
Tove Jansson takes us on a beautifully illustrated and delightfully quirky journey through Moominvalley, perfectly capturing the experience and its emotional impact as seen through the innocent eyes of Susanna, who is bored with her life: Her cat is too content; her surroundings, too gentle. She craves adventure when there is none to be had.
But when a new pair of glasse…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770463202 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770463208 |
| Author: | Tove Jansson |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 17 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 209mm x 284mm |
| Series: | Moomin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 5-9 |
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Critics Review
“Here is where Jansson’s weird but true world begins; where fear,loneliness and insecurity are banished by love and the force of imagination.” —Time
“[Jansson’s] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawingsonly echo her writing: delicate but precise, observant yet suggestive … Jansson was exceptional, an exuberant explorer of emotional independence and interdependence, a liberating force.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A lost treasure nowrediscovered—one of the sweetest, strangest comics strips ever drawn or written. A surrealist masterpiece. Honest.” —Neil Gaiman, author of Sandman
“Moominis gorgeous, and is flat out the best Moomin book I’ve ever seen. Tove Jansson was a natural cartoonist. These strips are clever, gentle, witty, andcompletely engrossing.” —Jeff Smith, cartoonist of Bone
“In the “Moomins” creator Tove Jansson’s THE DANGEROUS JOURNEY… [Susanna] finds a pair of glasses that reveal the nightmare under the surface of things…unlike 99 percent of children’s books, we are left without the reassurance that all is right in the end… Normal is perhaps a thing of the past.“—New York Times
Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children’s book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children’s books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.
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