Moomin Mischievous Nature by Tove Marika Jansson - Softcover Book | Fantasy Adventure Story for Kids & Adults | Perfect for Bedtime Reading & Family Storytime

Product Description

Tove Marika Jansson2022Moomin9500

(The Moomins and the Great Flood / Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen)1945

MISCHIEVOUS NATURE


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The Moomins and the Great Flood / Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen1945
Comet in Moominland / Kometjakten/Kometen kommer 1946
Finn Family Moomintroll / The Happy Moomins / Trollkarlens hatt 1948
The Exploits of Moominpappa / Moominpappa's Memoirs / Muminpappans bravader/Muminpappans memoarer1950
Moominsummer Madness / Farlig midsommar1954
Moominland Midwinter / Trollvinter1957
Tales from Moominvalley / Det osynliga barnet1962
Moominpappa at Sea / Originally: Pappan och havet1965
Moominvalley in November / Sent i november1970

Mischievous Nature, all the artwork from all nine of Tove Jansson's novels is back as a softcover edition.

All of the original Tove Jansson drawings and artwork for the nine Moomin novels in one book. No words — just pictures. There are some 500 illustrations presented in chronological order. The illustrations tell their own story; of the Moomin characters and their adventures; and of Tove Jansson's remarkable talent and career as an illustrator. The publisher gave the book the title Mischievous Nature. It relates to the characters' rather irreverent behaviour and to the natural world.

This is lay-flat softback with green linen-textured cardboard cover. Inside there are 288 pages of illustrations and book cover images. Some are printed so big they carry on around the page end and on to the next. 

There is almost no text at all in the book but there is one wonderful Tove Jansson quote from Moominland Midwinter on the reverse of the slipcase.

There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are a sleep—then they appear.
– Tove Jansson

Most importantly for us, the book is absolute proof that Tove Jansson was the most remarkable illustrator and artist.