Moominpappa at Sea

By: Tove Jansson

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Hardcover | 5 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Moominpappa had been feeling a little sad. Moomintroll was growing up now, and it seemed everything there was to be done had already been done, or was being done by someone else. The only thing to do was to make a fresh start.

Somewhere out at sea there was a tiny rocky island and a lighthouse, just waiting for him. There he'd be important, able to explain things to his family again, able to boast a bit.

The island is a mysterious, eerie place. Moominmamma's roses won't grow, the waves won't speak to Moominpappa, and there is an uneasy question at the back of their minds: where is the lighthouse-keeper?

Industry Reviews

"There is, in short, everything in the Moon books: giant comets and secret caves and tree houses and stilts and magic-carpet clouds and amusement parks run by despotic practical-joking kings and time machines and ski instructors." -"Harper's
""We need Moominland for its gentle pace, its sense of beauty and awe, and its spirit of friendliness and empathy--now more than ever." -"The Horn Book
""These charming fantasies are propelled by a childlike curiosity and filled with quiet wisdom, appealing geniality, and a satisfying sense of self-discovery." -School Library Journal.com
"If you had no shame reading "Harry Potter" on the subway, there's no need to hide Tove Jansson's witty, whimsically illustrated Finnish series." -Daily Candy
"The Moomin books make for both splendid bedtime read-alouds and solitary savoring." -"Wall Street Journal" "It's more than forty years since Jansson's Moomintrolls first appeared. I found the writing and invention as appealing

"The Moomin books make for both splendid bedtime read-alouds and solitary savoring."-"Wall Street Journal"
"A sense of gentle mystery haunts this seventh book in the Moomintroll series. The Moomin family moves to an island where an abandoned lighthouse will not light, where frightened trees move of their own accord through the island's rocky soil, and where we remember just how good a sandwich tastes in the middle of the night."-"American Bookseller"
"Enter a world of fantasy that has such a life of its own that the Moomin family's island adventure will always be a part of you!"-"Daily Herald"
"A lost treasure now rediscovered . . . A surrealist masterpiece."-Neil Gaiman
"Jansson was a genius of a very subtle kind. These simple stories resonate with profound and complex emotions that are like nothing else in literature for children or adults: intensely Nordic, and completely universal.

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