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Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Moomins Collectors' Editions
When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the theatre casts adrift leaving Moomin,The Snorkmaiden and Little My marooned. Will they all be reunited before the final curtain?
Moomintroll Sets Sail (Adapted by Alex Haridi) by Tove Jansson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Join the Moomins on an ocean adventure in this stunning picture book based on Tove Jansson's classic tales. The Moomins, Sniff and Little My are setting off across the high seas in Moominpappa's new boat. Along the way they will encounter a swarm of mischievous niblings, Edward the gigantic Booble, and ...Show more
Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction Series | Series: Moomins Collectors' Editions
In her last, most profound and poignant Moomin story, Jansson explores themes of loss, legacy and hope. The Moomins have left their beloved Moominvalley but as winter draws near Snufkin, Mymble, Toft and others move into the Moominhouse to await the family's return. Could that gentle flicker of light on ...Show more
My First Moomin: Be Brave, Moomin (Board) by Tove Jansson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Board Books
Meet Moomintroll and all his friends in this charming story about overcoming your fears! It's a beautiful summer's afternoon in Moominvalley - just right for a swim at the beach! But the idea of getting his ears wet makes Moomintroll's tummy feel funny. He wishes he was brave, like Snorkmaiden. She does ...Show more
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietila
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, p ...Show more
Tales From Moominvalley by Tove Jansson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Moomins
Featuring the much loved stories in Waterstone's Oxfam bestseller, The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree - the Moomins' gloriously funny and generous take on Christmas - Tales from Moominvalley collects together nine delightful Moomin short stories.Highlights include The Spring Tune (which Jarvis Cocker ...Show more
The Memoirs of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Moomins
One cold and windy autumn evening many years ago a newspaper parcel was found on the doorstep of the Home for Moomin Foundlings. In that parcel I lay, quite small and shivering with cold. So begins the remarkable The Memoirs of Moominpappa, a book written to delight his dear son Moomintroll and friend ...Show more
The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Moomins
Created in 1945, yet published in this country for the very first time, The Moomins and the Great Flood offers an extraordinary glimpse into the creativity and imagination that launched the Moomin books. Moominmamma and young Moomintroll search for the long lost Moominpappa through forest and flood, me ...Show more
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very is ...Show more
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling with ...Show more
Travelling Light by Tove Jansson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray w ...Show more