So who are the Moomins, and why should you care? The Moomins (Moominmama, Moominpapa, Moomintroll, and his girlfriend Snorkmaiden) live together in Moominvalley. There’s even a Moomin World theme park.) It’s only a matter of time before the Moomins take over the US, too. The Moomins loom largest in Finland, but Japan’s a close second (Moomin merch is everywhere. But the Moomin-mania is far from over– in fact, they’re more popular now than ever. Jansson was a Finnish artist who first created these calm and quirky characters in the 1940s. In fact, the Moomins populate some of the best kids' books of all time.

Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson's observations of everyday life, including guests who overstay their welcome, modern art, movie stars, and high society, easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.Far too few American parents know the brilliance of Tove Jansson and her massively successful cartoon world, the Moomins. The comic strip reached out to adults with its gentle and droll sense of humor. Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson's Nordic roots. The Moomins are a tight-knit family - hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among the international cartooning greats of the last century.

Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reigns to her brother Lars in 1960. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in 40 countries. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of world's largest newspaper the London Evening News, in 1954. Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin

Moomins books - 6 books by Tove Jansson