However, there are also two Soviet serials, puppet animation Mumi-troll ( Moomintroll) and cutout animation Shlyapa Volshebnika ( Magician's Hat) of three parts each, and the Polish– Austrian puppet animation TV series, The Moomins, which was broadcast and became popular in an edited form in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Parting ways with the Hattifatteners, they travel inland and meet a boy with red hair who lives in a lighthouse. Then there's the old man who has created a world made out of chocolates (Fazer brand), sweets and lemonade, prefiguring Dahl's Willy Wonka, though I'm uncertain as to any direct connection. In 2023, Finnair also decorated two of its Airbus A350-900s with two of Moomin characters, Moomintroll and Snork Maiden to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Moominpappa: Orphaned in his younger years, he is a somewhat restless soul who left the orphanage to venture out into the world in his youth but has now settled down, determined to be a responsible father to his family.

Kai apie jį pasakoja, Muminuko Mama verkia ir sako, kad nu gal kada nors jį ir sutiks, bet turbūt jau nebe. But what stood out to me as a child was the emphasis on finding homes and safe havens – a map of the Moomin house is reproduced in Finn Family Moomintroll and the Moomin house is a feature of the theme parks in Finland and Japan – whether they be the haven of family, the family home or even the lighthouse Moominpappa moves the family to in Moominpappa at Sea. Other Moomin picture books include The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My [9780955352743], Who Will Comfort Toffle?Tulippa decides to stay with him, but the others set out after Moominpappa when they learn from the boy that he had passed through recently. Moominmamma and Moomintroll are bland but perhaps characters cherished by children who grew up reading this series. Das ist ein bißchen wie “nach Hause kommen” - vertraut, voll Wärme und Liebe, Geborgenheit und Sicherheit, bestenfalls erfüllt von den Menschen, die wir lieben.

This edition is an inexpensive fairly large format hardback that allows for reprinting said illustrations at a size worthy of them and in superior quality, too. There is also a nice dryad type character who bows out before the strory ends, and who I have not encountered in the others I've read.

She came up with an ad hoc Swedish word mumintroll, because, in her opinion, the consonant sound of m in particular conveys a sensation of softness. The Swedish and Finnish recordings of Moomin Voices, and their respective musical scores, have been used as course material at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.