Moominpapa ([info]moominpapa) wrote,
@ 2003-10-08 13:11:00
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Who is that?
The real Moominpappa is the creation of the late, great Tove Jansson (1914-2001), a Finnish author who wrote a series of books about the Moomin family, their friends, and their adventures. If you have never read any of her Moomin books, I strongly recommend them (start with Comet in Moominland). They are "for children," but like all good children's literature they give something to everybody.

Like Moominpappa, sometimes I want to be at sea, looking for adventures in exotic new lands; often, though, I simply feel at sea, especially in this the strangest of all the strange lands.



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[info]chicken_cem
2003-10-08 05:09 pm UTC (link)
I'm very excited to see that the library has 5 copies. I've reserved one already and am waiting with anticipation to be notified of its availability.

Are there other authors to whom Jansson can be reasonably compared in her style and content? Or is she truly one of a kind?

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