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Finn Family Moomintroll (Puffin Books) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Tove Jansson
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  • Paperback: 157 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin (30 Aug 1973)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014030150X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140301502
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 . . .


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ONE spring morning at four o'clock the first cuckoo arrived in the Valley of the Moomins. Read the first page
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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great pleasure!, 12 Sep 2003
This review is from: Finn Family Moomintroll (Puffin Books) (Paperback)
As a child I loved the moomins and read all the books. Finn Family Moomintroll was the first I read and has always held a special place in my canon of favourite children's books.

What a pleasure then, to read it to my children now. The book has lost none of its charm and the children love it. A magic hat, clouds that you can fly on, adventures at sea, a house that turns into a jungle, what child could resist these enchantments?

But the real impact of the book lies in the characters. Although not the first in the series, this book provides perhaps the best introduction to the charming Moomintroll and his family, to the fiercely independent Snufkin, the bashful Snork Maiden, the logical Snork, the every-child Sniff and their friends.

The book was written before Tove Jansson moved into the rather darker mood that characterises some of the later moomin books, and the warmth, simplicity, kindliness and love for the character and their surroundings that characterise Finn Family Moomintroll make it ideal for younger readers and a great pleasure for their parents!

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars an absolute delight!, 12 Mar 2003
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Debbie Friedman (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Finn Family Moomintroll (Puffin Books) (Paperback)
As someone who was not fed a diet of moomins, moomins and more moomins as a kid I can confirm that it is not pure nostalgia for bygone days that keeps these books is print. There is a compulsive quality of sweetness and innocence in the Moomin series that is difficult to find in most modern hectic lives. It leaves the reader with a renewed appreciation of the simple things in life and a determination to make some time for simple but delightful pursuits: reading, walking, noticing nature (at least that's how I feel after dipping in to the world of the Moomins!)

Moominland midwinter is certainly the best of the bunch. Moomintroll wakes up in the middle of winter whislt all the rest of the family are still hibernating. He discovers a winter wonderland full of weird characters that he had been completely unaware of in his previous sleepy winters.

If you have never read any Moomin books before, now is as good a time as any to start!

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer delight, 7 July 2006
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Francis Pickett "fjp" (Isle of Wight, UK) - See all my reviews
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Difficult to add much to the existing reviews, but I would like to put in a word for the translator, who seems to have captured the lyrical prose perfectly. Translation of words without exact equivalents must be very difficult, but it has been done quite seamlessly and the stories are a delight to read. They are comfortable but not anodyne, inventive but not implausible, adventurous but not scary. I loved them when I was young and I still do.

As someone else said (of another Moomin book), you read a chapter to your child, and then read the rest of it yourself when they've gone to sleep!
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