‘Fascinating’: Tove Jansson’s Moomins notes to be published for first time
Handwritten notes about characters’ traits and voices to be published in 80th-anniversary edition of The Moomins and the Great Flood
As a cult series of 20th-century children’s books, the Moomins have sold up to 30m copies worldwide. Now, extensive humorous notes that their Finnish creator, Tove Jansson, wrote on each of her lovable trolls with hippopotamus snouts are to be published for the first time, 25 years after her death.
Eighty-nine handwritten pages that cast new light on the “small, friendly and adventurous” creatures with fur “like velvet”, have been rediscovered among hundreds of thousands of items in her sprawling archive.
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