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My First Moomin: Be Brave, Moomin (Board) by Tove Jansson
Category: Board Books
Meet Moomintroll and all his friends in this charming story about overcoming your fears! It's a beautiful summer's afternoon in Moominvalley - just right for a swim at the beach! But the idea of getting his ears wet makes Moomintroll's tummy feel funny. He wishes he was brave, like Snorkmaiden. She does ...Show more
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietila
Category: Nature
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, p ...Show more
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson; Tuulikki Pietilå; Thomas Teal (Translator)
Category: Travel
Features Tove's seven page prose poem, The Island, published for the first time in the UK
Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson
Category: Biography
Tove Jansson's first book for adults drew on her childhood memories to capture afresh the enchantments and fears of growing up in Helsinki in the nineteen tens and twenties. Described as both a memoir and 'a book of superb stories' by Ali Smith, her startlingly evocative prose offers a glimpse of the my ...Show more
Stories from Moominvalley by Alex Haridi, Tove Jansson, Cecilia Davidsson
Category: Children's Classics
Stories From Moominvalley is a beautiful collection of three classic Moomin stories, based on Tove Jansson's original works. Join Moomintroll, his charming family and his eclectic band of friends on a series of adventures in a picturesque land where anything can happen: a father can be washed away in a ...Show more
Summer Stories from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson
Category: Audio
Penguin presents the audio CD edition of Summer Stories from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. Moominsummer Madness It all began with a hot day in June, and a volcano dropping black ash on to Moominmamma's washing. Next a crack appeared in the ground, and then a great flood wave came cr ...Show more
Tales From Moominvalley by Tove Jansson
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Moomins
Featuring the much loved stories in Waterstone's Oxfam bestseller, The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree - the Moomins' gloriously funny and generous take on Christmas - Tales from Moominvalley collects together nine delightful Moomin short stories.Highlights include The Spring Tune (which Jarvis Cocker ...Show more
Tales from Moominvalley (#7) by Tove Jansson
Category: Children's Books | Series: Moomins
If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws, would you know what to do with it? Well, Moomintroll thinks he knows what to do. But when he takes his new-found pet home, things don't quite work out as planned!
Tales from Moominvalley (#7) by Tove Jansson
Category: Classics | Series: Moomins
If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws, would you know what to do with it? Moomintroll thinks he does, but when he takes his new-found pet home, things don't quite work out as planned. And suppose Too-ticky brought you an invisible child, would you know how to make her visible again?Meet new ...Show more
The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Moomins
Finnish artist Tove Jansson's Moomin stories have been continually in print for more than half a century, in 35 languages. They are among Europe's best loved and enduring children's classics, and through the current TV animation (BBC2), the warm-hearted, whimsical creatures of Moomin valley have been br ...Show more
The Curious Explorer's Guide to the Moominhouse by Tove Jansson
Category: Children's Books | Series: Ladybird Readers
"Hidden in the furthest northern corner of the forests is the MAGICAL land of Moominvalley. Come and explore the Moominhouse as Little My searches for her friend Moomintroll!"
The Exploits of Moominpappa (#4) by Tove Jansson
Category: Children's Books | Series: Moomins
'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.