On Sale: May 2, 2023
Page Count: 40 pages
Publisher: Boxer Books
ISBN-13: 9781915801067

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A beautifully illustrated alphabet book set in the iconic world of Moominvalley, filled with quotes from the Moomin world, and illustrated in the distinctive Moomin style.

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Moomin

Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She drew her first Moomin as a teenager, and the first Moomin story, The Moomins and the Great Flood, was published in 1945. She created a total of thirteen Moomin books, which have been translated into over 55 languages. The Moomins are now famous and beloved all around the world and have appeared in a hugely successful comic strip, television series, plays, films, and even an opera.

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Tove Jansson

About the Author

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Jansson’s most famous creation is Moomintroll, a hippopotamus-like character with a dreamy disposition who appears in Moomin, the long-running comic strip and series of books for children that have been translated throughout the world, inspiring films, several television series, an opera, and theme parks in Finland and Japan. Jansson also wrote eleven novels and short-story collections for adults, including The Summer Book, The True Deceiver, Fair Play, and The Woman Who Borrowed Memories (New York Review Books Classics). In 1994 she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy. Jansson and her companion, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, continued to live part time in a cottage on the remote outer edge of Pellinge until 1991.

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