The Exploits of Moominpappa

Tove Jansson

ISBN 10: 0241344484 / ISBN 13: 9780241344484

Verlag: Penguin Random House Children's UK Feb 2019, 2019

Beschreibung

Neuware - Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and went on to write and illustrate many books for adults and children. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s, just for fun, and in 1945 he became a character in a children'story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books, which began with The Moomins and the Great Flood in 1945, closely followed by Comet in Moominland in 1946, Finn Family Moomintroll in 1948 and six more Moomin adventures. During the winter months Tove lived and worked in Helsinki, but in the summertime she stayed on a beautiful remote island in the Gulf of Finland with her long-term partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietil¿Tove Jansson received many prestigious awards during her lifetime, including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001, aged eighty-seven.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780241344484

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Exploits of Moominpappa
• Verlag: Penguin Random House Children's UK Feb 2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0241344484
• ISBN-13: 9780241344484
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 195B x 126 H x 15 T Millimeter Breite: 195 mm, Höhe: 126 mm, Tiefe: 15 mm
• Gewicht: 129 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Meet the Moomins - all 8 magical adventures relaunched in a stunning new package.

Celebrating 80 years since the first Moomin book was published!

Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this magical edition of The Exploits of Moominpappa complete with a charming new cover design.

Here is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and met Moominmamma.

They seem to grow in wisdom and delight every time I read them - Philip Pullman

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and went on to write and illustrate many books for adults and children. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s, just for fun, and in 1945 he became a character in a children's story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books, which began with The Moomins and the Great Flood in 1945, closely followed by Comet in Moominland in 1946, Finn Family Moomintroll in 1948 and six more Moomin adventures. During the winter months Tove lived and worked in Helsinki, but in the summertime she stayed on a beautiful remote island in the Gulf of Finland with her long-term partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä. Tove Jansson received many prestigious awards during her lifetime, including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001, aged eighty-seven.