Ein Gästehaus in Florida, eine Handvoll Rentner am Ziel ihres Lebens und in Erwartung des Unausweichlichen, demgegenüber zwei junge, schöne Liebende. Ein Fundus an kräftig skizzierten Charakteren, überzeugend, skurril, lebensnah, jeder ein faszinierendes Original.\nTreffsicher und humorvoll, mit der ihr eigenen feinen Beobachtungsgabe erforscht Tove Jansson das Phänomen des Alterns. Das Resultat ist ein literarisches Juwel zu einem zeitlos aktuellen Thema, dessen Wert kaum überschätzt werden kann.\nSt. Petersburg ist eine jener Sun Cities in Florida, in denen Rentner den Traum ihrer letzten Lebensjahre realisieren. Ein unwirklicher Ort, an dem wie in einem Wartezimmer Fremde auf Fremde treffen, unterschiedliche Gewohnheiten aufeinanderprallen, Irritation und Gelassenheit einander ablösen, und Lebensläufe, die sich niemals überschnitten haben, stetig und nebeneinanderher ihrem Ende entgegengleiten. Schonungslos – nichts beschönigend, nichts verschweigend – taucht Tove Jansson in die Gedankenwelt ihrer Figuren ein. Aber ihr liebevolles Verständnis für ihre schrulligen Helden ist so verlässlich wie die Sonne in Florida.

Sun City

Tove, Jansson

Literature & Fiction

Hutchinson of London

Moominpappa at Sea (Puffin Books)

Children's Books

Puffin Books

Finn Family Moomintroll

Finn Family Moomintroll is the second book in the cult classic Moomin series by Tove Jansson. A must-read for adults and children alike. Poor little chap! He had been turned into a very strange animal indeed . . . Although they're small, fat and shy creatures, Moomins have the most amazing adventures. It all begins when Moominpappa tries on a magic hat that makes exciting and funny things happen . . . 'They seem to grow in wisdom and delight every time I read them' - Philip Pullman 'A beautifully strange world, excquisitely illustrated' - Lauren Child Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and went on to write and illustrate many books for adults and children. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s, just for fun, and in 1945 he became a character in a children's story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books, which began with Comet in Moominland in 1946, closely followed by Finn Family Moomintroll. Tove Jansson received many prestigious awards during her lifetime, including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001, aged 87.

Puffin

Moomin's Make A Wish Novelty

Comet in Moominland

Penguin??Books

A brilliant Touch and Feel Playbook, based on Tove Jansson's Moomins! With plenty for little hands to touch and feel on every page, this brilliant playbook is a perfect introduction to first words, numbers, weather, opposites and colours. Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland's stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into over 40 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.

Moomin's Touch and Feel Playbook

Early Learning

Moomin and the New Friend

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Moomintrolls and Friends

Finn Family Moomintroll and Other Storie

Classics

Summer Stories from Moominvalley

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