Book cover for Moomin Book Five

Moomin Book Five

Hardback

Synopsis

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20 July 2010
88 pages
9781897299944
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly

Reviews

β€œCharming and upbeat, filled with curiosity and warmth.” β€”Newsarama

β€œIt's like watching someone write with her art but then also put in bold moments of decoration around that writing.” β€”The Comics Reporter

β€œMoomin remains a wistful paean to the joys of relaxing and enjoying life and the importance of play . . . It's wish fulfillment at its finest. ” β€”CHRIS MAUTNER, Comic Book Resources

β€œThe Moomin family strays far from the tranquil charms of Moominvalley: on the French Riviera, Moominpappa gets drunk and Moomin's sweetheart, the Snork Maiden, is seduced by a toothy film star. But then the hattifatteners appear--mute, sock-like animals that grow from seeds and chase after electric storms . . . Here is where Jansson's weird but true world begins; where fear, loneliness and insecurity are banished by love and the force of imagination.” β€”Time.com

β€œ[Jansson's] strips, more than 800 in five years, stand as perennial classics of children's literature across the Nordic lands . . . Their belated recovery from crumbling newsprint into five eventual volumes seems almost as fantastical and life-affirming as the Moomin fables themselves.” β€”The Independent