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Moomin - by Tove Jansson (Hardcover)

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Highlights

  • In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention.
  • About the Author: 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.
  • 88 Pages
  • Comics + Graphic Novels, Literary
  • Series Name: Moomin

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About the Book



In the second volume of Janssons humorous yet melancholic "Moomin" comic strip, readers get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention.



Book Synopsis



In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her seventeen new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.



Review Quotes




"A lost treasure now rediscovered--one of the sweetest, strangest comic strips ever drawn or written. A Surrealist masterpiece. Honest." --Neil Gaiman

"[Jansson's] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawings only 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

"Moomin is 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, and completely engrossing." --Jeff Smith, cartoonist of Bone




About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 12.0 Inches (H) x 8.6 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.45 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 88
Genre: Comics + Graphic Novels
Sub-Genre: Literary
Series Title: Moomin
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Format: Hardcover
Author: Tove Jansson
Language: English
Street Date: October 30, 2007
TCIN: 77298677
UPC: 9781897299197
Item Number (DPCI): 247-14-1995
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.6 inches length x 8.6 inches width x 12 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.45 pounds
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