Moomintroll, also referred to as "Moomin" in some of the English translations: The main protagonist, the little boy of the family, interested in and excited about everything he sees and finds, always trying to be good, but sometimes getting into trouble while doing so; he is very brave and always finds a way to make his friends happy. Moominpappa: Orphaned in his younger years, he is a somewhat restless soul who left the orphanage to venture out into the world in his youth but has now settled down, determined to be a responsible father to his family. Wer die Mumins mag oder sie kennenlernen möchte, dem sei dieser kurze Band als Einstieg empfohlen (oder alternativ auch mein Favorit: “Eine drollige Gesellschaft”). The earliest production was a 1949 theatrical version of Comet in Moominland performed at Åbo Svenska Teater.

Moomins were used to advertise Finland abroad: the Helsinki–Vantaa International Airport was decorated with Moomin images and Finnair decorated 2 of its MD-11s on routes to Japan with Moomin designs in 2006. That being said, it's a must for Moomin completists, and for me personally, just learning of the existence of this book was satisfying in that I finally understood what flood was being referred to at the beginning of Comet in Moominland, which used to be considered book 1. I am reading The Myth of Sisyphus and though I am dismayed to find it obscure as most modern philosophy books ( and as obscure as ancient texts too to be fair), the glimmerings of reason and imagination exceed Moomin 1's offering.The lonesome philosophical traveller, who likes to play the harmonica and wanders around the world with only a few things, so as not to make his life complicated. One aspect of the Moomins I must have forgotten (and does not seem to have been made obvious in Moominpappa at Sea) is how small the Moomins are. The difference between this and the newer volumes is very easily spotted, especially in the artstyle. A rediscovered gem, it offers an extraordinary glimpse into Tove Jansson's unique vision, featuring beautiful sepia watercolours as well as the pen and ink drawings that would become her trademark.

I for one had forgotten that Moomintrolls used to live behind the stoves in people's houses and were driven out by the advent of central heating. A bit like collage, we find the poses and content we want to tell our story, we cut them out, compose the illustration and colour them. The director of the film is Zaida Bergroth, a highly acclaimed Finnish director for which this will be the fifth feature-length drama.

And after now after having read The Moomins and the Great Flood, I can certainly and very much understand why this novel (which is considered the first Moomin tale and was orignally published in 1945, and was also for decades out of print even in its Swedish original), has only recently been translated (the simple fact being that although author and illustrator Tove Jansson's accompanying pictorial images are indeed glowingly descriptive, esoteric and for all intents and purposes wonderful, the actual text, the actual featured narrative, the story of The Moomins and the Great Flood is simply, is just not in any way en par with the other Moomin novels). The theme park has become very popular, with more than one million visitors during the first three months in 2019.

The Moomins, in case you didn’t know, are kind, philosophical creatures with velvety fur and smooth round snouts, who live in a tall blue house in a beautiful woodland valley beside the sea. But it is a fact of evolution that the creatures that specialises most, that deviates most from its ancestors, evolves fastest, though in totality few options are available for its next step. Tove Jansson's life partner was the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, whose personality inspired the character Too-Ticky in Moominland Midwinter. This production was written by Emma Edwards and Sophie Ellen Powell with puppets and set designed and made by Annie Brooks. Unsuccessful at first, they finally find him with the help of a marabou stork who flies them up into the air.

The Moomin Boom ( muumibuumi in Finnish) started in the 1990s, when Dennis Livson and Lars Jansson produced a 104-part animation series in Japan named Tales from Moominvalley, which was followed by a full-length movie Comet in Moominland. Friends of Tove Jansson and many old Moomin enthusiasts have stressed that the newer animations banalize the original and philosophical Moomin world to harmless family entertainment. There is also a nice dryad type character who bows out before the strory ends, and who I have not encountered in the others I've read. So entstanden letztlich eben auch die Mumin-Bücher, so auch “ Mumins lange Reise”, in der Mumin und seine Mutter zunächst allein, im Verlauf dann aber mit weiteren Gefährten, den verschollenen Muminvater suchen. Highlights include The Spring Tune and The Last Dragon in the World, revealing the true essence of friendship.