The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson

Synopsis and characters Įdward the Booble and the bathing hut, at Moominworld Characters As an artist, Jansson gave the Moomins a shape that also expresses softness, as opposed to flabbiness. She came up with an ad hoc Swedish word mumintrollet, because, in her opinion, the consonant sound of m in particular conveys a sensation of softness. In a letter to Paul Ariste, an Estonian linguist, Jansson wrote in 1973 that she had created an artificial word which expresses something soft.

The Moomins have since been the basis for numerous television series, films and even two theme parks: one called Moomin World in Naantali, Finland, and another Akebono Children's Forest Park in Hannō, Saitama, Japan.

In all, nine books were released in the series, together with five picture books and a comic strip being released between 19. The family live in their house in Moominvalley and have had many adventures with their various friends. However, despite this resemblance, the Moomin family are trolls. They are a family of white, round fairy-tale characters with large snouts that make them resemble the hippopotamus. The Moomins ( Swedish: Mumintroll) are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, and a comic strip by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland.

To English: Elizabeth Portch, Thomas Warburton, Kingsley Hart, Ant O'Neillĭrawn & Quarterly, Macmillan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Schildts, Zangavar, Sort of Books.

The Moomins, comic book cover by Tove Janssonįrom left to right: Sniff, Snufkin, Moominpappa, Moominmamma, Moomintroll (Moomin), the Mymble's daughter, Groke, Snork Maiden and Hattifatteners

The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson