Soon to be MOOMINVALLEY,a MAJOR ANIMATED SERIES on SKY ONE starring Taron Egerton and Rosamund Pike!A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody in Moominvalley knows what to do!Will it destroy everything and everyone Moomintroll decides to find out. So,with Sniff,he sets off on an expedition to ask the Professor if a comet is really on its way to destroy the Earth. On their journey they meet some interesting people - such as Snufkin the super tramp,and the Hemulen who rescues them from an underground tunnel - and have narrow escapes from such menaces as crocodiles and giant lizards!And on their way back Moomintroll meets the beautiful Snork Maiden and is a changed Moomin for ever after. But what about the comet - and is the World Wiped Out...Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and went on to write and illustrate many books for adults and children. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s,just for fun,and in 1945 he became a character in a children's story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books,which began with The Moomins and the Great Flood,Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll. Tove Jansson received many prestigious awards during her lifetime,including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001,aged 87.
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780241344477Number of pages: 224Weight: 162 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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They seem to growin wisdom and delight every time I read them...a perfect marriage of word and pictureIt's not just Tove Jansson's wonderfully strange fairytale world that so appeals but also her beautiful line work and exquisite sense of design
Tove Jansson
Known primarily as the creator of the Moomins,Finnish authorTove Jansson was a novelist,painter and illustrator,part of a minority Swedish-speaking community in Finland. As well as creating the Moomin books for children,which began with The Moomins and the Great Flood,she also wrote six novels including The Summer Book,The True Deceiver and the semi-autobiographical Sculptor's Daughter and five collections of short stories for adults,some of her most popular stories in translation are collected in A Winter Book.
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