Fans of the Moomins have reason to rejoice this summer, as the children’s book characters created by Finnish artist Tove Jansson will alight at the Brooklyn Public Library in “Tove Jansson and the ...

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Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door is Always Open at Brooklyn Public Library includes two facade projections of Jansson (left) and Moomintroll (right). (photo by Charles Roussel, courtesy Moomin ...

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Tove Jansson’s Finnish troll creations have beguiling adventures with a host of strange characters. But, at heart, their strength comes from being a loving family Thinking about all the “family” ...

When Tove Jansson wrote her first Moomin story, Europe was at war, forcing millions of people to flee their homes, and the threatened atomic bomb was about to become reality. Feeling too desperate to ...

To the bewilderment of almost everyone I know, last March I designed an entire trip to Europe around the Moomins. The Moomins are creatures from a Finnish children's book series—odd, yet undeniably ...

In 1915, a mother makes a sketch of her one-year-old daughter’s hands. “Look what beautiful hands, one flat, with outstretched fingers, one with a clenched fist,” she notes. The hands were to be key, ...

As a child, I heartily disliked the Moomins. A well-meaning aunt bought me Tove Jansson’s book, Finn Family Moomintroll, but the bulbous, mild-mannered, hippopotamus-like Moomins and their extended ...

The Moomins may look like hippos in aprons and top hats, but they’re more than just adorable characters from children’s books. Over the decades, these gentle creatures have become part of a living ...

The demise of bookstores in the Amazon AMZN AMZN era is less about structural decline in the market and more about book store chains “simply not being good enough to survive”, according to Barnes & ...