Exploits Of Moominpappa - Softcover

Jansson, Tove

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140303235 ISBN 13: 9780140303230

Publisher: Puffin, 2003

Synopsis

'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.

About this title

About the Author:

Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland's stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into over 40 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.

Review:

A freshness and originality that have hardly ever been matched. Tove Jansson should have had the Nobel Prize. -- Philip Pullman Tove Jansson is one of the greatest children's writers there has ever been. -- Sir Terry Pratchett

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140303235
• ISBN 13: 9780140303230
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 144