In “Moominpappa at Sea” by Finnish author Tove Jansson (1914-2001), Moominpappa is troubled. Fearing he has not earned the trust of everyone in his family, he is desperate for a change of ...
To cheer him up, Moominpappa recounts his youthful adventures; his misunderstood childhood, escape from an orphanage and his historic meeting with the inventor Hodgkins.