{"product_id":"moomin-adventures-book-one-jansson-tove-jansson-and-lars","title":"Moomin Adventures: Book One   -   Jansson, Tove Jansson and Lars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Moomin universe is what you'd get if you took Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, Bill Watterson and Charles Schulz, and mixed them together with Finland's cartoonishly long summer days and winter nights\" --Myla Goldberg,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The experience of loneliness, unrequited love, insecurity, fear, separation, jealousy, and grief--Jansson was seen by her readers as someone who understood their inner lives.\" --Frances Wilson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTove Jansson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children's book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children's books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLars Jansson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (8 September 1926 - 31 July 2000) was a Finnish cartoonist and author. He was a published author at sixteen before he taught himself to be a cartoonist in order to replace his sister Tove on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoomin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comic strip. Lars Jansson drew the strip for fourteen years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic comic strip by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson in a new paperback series\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented in an all new softcover format that collects the all ages comics of both Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, the five-volume\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoomin Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eseries will introduce the timeless comic strip to a new generation of readers of all ages. The strip's gentle humor and subtle yet sharp musings on life relay an utterly human existence through the lives of Moomin, Moominmamma, Moominpappa, Snufkin, Little My, Snork Maiden and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoomin Adventures: Book One kicks off with perhaps the most famous adventure of them all, Moomin on the Riviera, which was adapted into an animated feature and debuted at the London Film Festival. In Moomin's Desert Island, the entire Moomin family is stranded on a desert island--the very island their ancestors came from. The Moominvalley hijinx continued with a charming mix of strips from Finland's most famous writer\/artist Tove Jansson, and her brother Lars Jansson who taught himself how to draw in order to take over the strip when it was in syndication.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen D+Q debuted the Moomin comic strip in 2007, it was the first time that the comic strip had been published in english since its original appearance in the London Evening News. The series has gone on to sell 400,000 volumes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/15\/2024 (EAN 9781770467422, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eJansson, Tove Jansson and Lars\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTove Jansson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children's book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children's books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLars Jansson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (8 September 1926 - 31 July 2000) was a Finnish cartoonist and author. 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