The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson

With beautiful black and white artwork interspersed throughout the text and curious, playful prose, you find yourself rooting for the Moomins and their quest to find Moominpappa and a place to call home. They are a family of white, round fairy tale characters with large snouts that make them resemble the hippopotamus. She wrote this as her escape from the horrors of war and its many consequences, but rather than avoiding the problems that war raises, she uses these as a basis for the many obstacles that the characters face, from separated families to forced displacement. The Moomins (Swedish: Mumintroll) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. Written during the 1939-40 Finnish-Soviet Union conflict, or The Winter War, Jansson uses the unusual setting of a natural catastrophe to provide the background of her first children?s book and the first appearance of her beloved Moomin characters. The Moomins and the Great Flood was her first ever Moomin story. Her Moomin series, about a young Moomintroll, his family and friends, has been published in thirty-five languages and is the subject of plays, films and a TV animation. Their journey seems daunting but they forge ahead, with Moominmamma?s kindness and patience giving Moomin the courage he needs to face the strange, unexplored path that lies ahead of them. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is Scandinavias best known and best loved childrens author. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is Scandinavias best known and best loved childrens author. But before they can settle down, they must cross a dark and sinister forest and find their way through a flood of epic proportions, all the while hoping that they will find Moominpappa again.

Moominmamma and Moomintroll need to find a home for the winter, someplace where sun is plentiful and safe from the dangers of the unknown.

The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson