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 ...

Lately, though, the milk-white hippo-esque characters created by the Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson, have taken over ...

The creator of the Moomins was much more than just a cartoonist. Her body of work could fill several lifetimes. She lived a ...

Today, Moomin books are published in nearly 60 languages. A number of TV adaptations have been produced and have aired in 120 countries.

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 ...

A Moomin scholar finds the move "absurd", arguing that the character Stinky is far from racist and the decision likely ...

The Moomins are quirky, loveable creatures that originated in the vivid imagination of author Tove Jansson, who wrote several novels for children. Snufkin is a wanderer who inhabits six of the nine ...