Moomin and the Windy Day
By (Author) Tove Jansson
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
21st November 2019
21st November 2019
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Picture books: character books
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Board book
5
Width 219mm, Height 219mm, Spine 16mm
455g
A lift-the-flap adventure for Moomin and friends - stylish, playful and endlessly fun. With big flaps for little hands - a Moomin adventure to read and play with! Whoosh - oh no! The wind is causing mayhem all over Moominvalley and everything is topsy turvy. Lift the flaps to help Moomin and friends find their lost things . . .
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.