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The Exploits of Moominpappa (#4) by Tove Jansson
$12.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Moomins | Reading Level: 6-11
'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last 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 was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.
The Listener by Tove Jansson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In her first ever story collection, Jansson revealed the clarity of vision and light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. From the good listener who begins to betray the secrets confided to her, to vignettes of a city storm or the slow halting of spring, these stories are gifts of origi ...Show more
The Memoirs of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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: The World of Moominvalley by Philip Ardagh; Frank Cottrell Boyce; Tove Jansson (Illustrator); Macmillan Children's Books Staff
$54.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Moomin Ser.
'It's the most wonderful valley in the world.' - MoomintrollStep into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful and unique book; a fun, fascinating and unprecedented look at the wonderful world of the Moomins and their creator, Tove Jansson.Filled with illustrated maps and family trees, fact ...Show more
The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In "The Summer Book" Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a t ...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
$24.99 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
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel "The Summer Book" and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that th ...Show more
Travelling Light by Tove Jansson
$19.99 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
Who Will Comfort Toffle? by Tove Jansson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Moomins
Who Will Comfort Toffle? A tale of Moomin Valley sees Toffle driven from his home by the frightening noises of the forest. Too shy, at first, to approach the many colourful Moomin characters he passes along the way, he gains confidence by discovering a scared and lonely Miffle who needs his help. Tof ...Show more