The Moomins and the Great Flood is a book by the Finland Swedish author Tove Jansson. It was published in 1945, during the last months of World War II. It was the first book to star the Moomins, but i
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Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage stamp designer, her fa
The Moomins and the Great Flood
…Great Flood (Swedish: Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen, literally The Little Trolls and the Great Flood) is a book by the Finland Swedish author Tove Jansson. It was published in 1945, during the last months of World War II. It was the first book to star the Moomins, but is often seen as a prelude to the…
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Jansson in 1923
Jansson in 1956 with Moomintroll dolls made by Atelier Fauni
Cover of Garm magazine, October 1944, lampooning Adolf Hitler as "self-important and comic"