Moomins

The Moomins were the creation of Finnish novelist and comic strip author Tove Jansson and, according to legend, she drew the first one to scare her brother.

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Each is set in a peculiar yet charmingly humane world populated by the chivalric hippo-like creatures called Moomins but also by Niblings (who "will chew the nose off a person if he thinks it too big"), Hemulens ( "generally a bit slow at grasping an idea, but very pleasant if you don't annoy them") and Hattifatteners ( "little white creatures who are forever wandering restlessly from place to place in their aimless quest for nobody knows what").

The 'Moomin' Series 2010

The strange hippo creatures are 'Moomins', from a Finnish cartoon series.

Sunday Sweets: Cartoons with Character 2010

A Different Stripe: Catch-all for 5.10.10: Thoreau, talking Moomins, and our first ebooks

Catch-all for 5.10.10: Thoreau, talking Moomins, and our first ebooks 2010

I wish I could go to Finland too, I know the Moomins stories from my grandmother, who is sweddish, it's been a very long time I hadn't heard of that books!

Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009

By the end the Moomins are back to square one with everything back to normal, as if nothing bad ever happened at all.

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Catch-all for 5.10.10: Thoreau, talking Moomins, and our first ebooks

A Different Stripe: 2010

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Catch-all 2010

Tove Jannson did something very clever when she wrote the Moomins.

The Moomins... zornhau 2009