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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Three (Bk. 3)

Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Three (Bk. 3)
By Tove Jansson

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Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Tove Jansson’s observations of everyday life—whimsical but with biting undertones—easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.

This third volume returns to Moominvalley, where its beloved inhabitants get tangled up in five new stories. Moomin falls in love with a damsel in distress, an unseasonably warm spell turns the valley into a tropical rain forest, and a flying saucer crashes into Moominmamma’s garden. Moominpappa decides to live out his dream of occupying a lighthouse and writing a great seaside novel, only to discover that he hates the sea so close up and has no interest in writing about it, and a variety of curious clubs spring up in the valley. Moomin and Moominmamma do their level best to avoid the whole mess but, of course, get drawn into the muddle.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #58352 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-09-30
  • Released on: 2008-09-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 104 pages

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal
Grade 10 Up—Moomin, the appealing hippolike troll, and his family and friends are back. This volume features characters from the author's well-known children's books in five short, amusingly chaotic adventures, including an errant Martian spaceship crashing in Moomin's garden, Moomin and his family moving into a haunted lighthouse, and Moomin's levelheaded and practical Moominmama joining a gang of burglars. The stories are fast moving and humorous, but also bring up thought-provoking questions such as What is romantic love? and Is it better to have security or freedom? Jansson's expressive line drawings give the Moomin family, as well as other characters like Stinky the burglar and Moomin's neighbor Mrs. Fillyjonk, unique personalities. Teens will enjoy the whimsical characters and appreciate the exploration of human nature and society through the eyes of another species.—Sandy Schmitz, Berkeley Public Library, CA
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From Booklist
The third collection of Moomintroll family comic strips contains five stories. Although they proceed in tripartitioned rectangles (stacked four on a page), reflecting their original newspaper format, their narrative flow doesn’t stutter a bit. It’s as if they were conceived as wholes, despite their story lines’ essential capriciousness. In them, the family faces flood, Martians, lighthouse-keeping, and club life (clubs were big in the newly leisured 1950s, the strip’s era, to which it otherwise gives scant notice), and Moomin, the young male character, falls briefly for a siren. They’re keenly delightful, like Wind in the Willows for adults, especially those who aren’t too adult. --Ray Olson

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“[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

Customer Reviews

moomin moving up5
Imagine if a bottle was adrift for over 50 years in the ocean and finally found way to the shores of North America. Inside you would find the works of Tove Jansson's comic strip Moomin for the first time. Untainted by time, the strip has found new life in North America because of Montreal's premiere graphic book publisher Drawn and Quarterly. This the third in a series that is finding new fans from all over and garnishing awards while it circulates province and state every day. It's amazing how work like this has gone under the radar for so many years. The character Moomin has enjoyed great recognition as far as Japan and all around the world, but is mute in both Canada and United States. This is slowly being remedied thanks to Chris Oliveros of Drawn and Quarterly and his staff of diligent connoisseurs of both new and older talent gathered under one roof. Moomin and other graphic novels by this company is making a dent in book sales all over the world. A true pleasure trip of an idea in the way books are created and the big publishers have taken notice and copied this winning formula.


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Moomins Forever!5
My eleven year old daughter and I enjoy the intriguingly weird logic of Jansson's world. There's something so sweet and true about Moomintroll's reactions to the other characters and the situations in the comic strip.

Children's favourite5
I read the Moomin books when I was young and I hoped that my children would find them as enchanting and engaging, as I did. My children are now 5, 7 & 9 and their fascination and love for the Moomin characters and stories has far exceeded my expectations. Although, the comic strips were written for an adult audience my children have enjoyed them on their own level. My 5 year old just loves looking at the pictures and will happily listen to the stories time and time again. He has taken the books into show and tell at school several times. I can't recommend this comic book highly enough. Do yourself and your children a favour and let them explore the magical world of Moomin.