The Moomins and the Great Flood, by the Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson, was published in 1945. The first Moomin book ...

The last Moomin book Jansson wrote, which came out in 1980, featured photographs of a huge model Moominhouse that Tove built with her friend Pentti Eistola and her partner Tuulikki Pietila, the ...

By the last book, they have disappeared altogether. A party of seekers gathers in the empty kitchen, and, while they wait for the family to come back, undertake the slow, adult task of replacing them.

Comme des Garçons It's all very typical of the 21st-century media and entertainment asset landscape. And yet, as Moomin aficionados know full well, none of it is new.

Marking Moomin Characters’ first significant foray into the U.S., Barnes & Noble will feature nearly a dozen of Jansson’s children’s books from the Moomin series alongside her most popular ...

Tove Jansson, the Finnish writer who created the Moomin family of plump trolls, died in hospital in Helsinki yesterday after a long illness. She was 86. Jansson became the most translated author ...

Performers dressed up as characters from the Moomin book series pose at Moominworld, a theme park in Naantali, Finland. Besides saunas and Nokia phones, the Moomin universe may be Finland's most ...

As the temperatures drop to minus 19 degrees Celsius, she rushes, flask in hand, across the bridge that leads into Moomin World, home to the peculiar children characters. In a hurry to prepare for her ...