''The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My'' was the first
Moomin
The Moomins (, ) are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, picture books, and a comic strip by the Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Finnish publisher Schildts. They are a ...
picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images.
The ima ...
by
Finnish author
Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson (; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, ...
, published in 1952 in
Swedish
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Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
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. It is the first Moomin book to be adapted into an iPad app.
Plot
Moomintroll
A large number of characters appear in the ''Moomin'' series by Tove Jansson. The original Swedish names are given with the etymologies and word associations suggested by Yvonne Bertills in her 2003 dissertation.
Main characters Moomintroll
...
is taking milk back home to his mother,
Moominmamma
A large number of characters appear in the ''Moomin'' series by Tove Jansson. The original Swedish names are given with the etymologies and word associations suggested by Yvonne Bertills in her 2003 dissertation.
Main characters Moomintroll
M ...
when he meets
The Mymble who is searching for her missing sister
Little My
Little My (original , literally: "Little Mu") is a character in the Moomin series of books by Tove Jansson. The character first appeared in the fourth book, The Exploits of Moominpappa (1950). She is a small, determined and fiercely independe ...
. Together the pair go looking for her.
Style
The book is fully illustrated with all text written in rhyming verse in a box in the corner. Each spread in the book features cut-out holes, having the reader catch a glimpse of the next pages and anticipate 'what happens next' ('Hur gick det sen?' in the original Swedish language).
Awards
Tove Jansson received the Nils Holgersson Plaque for Moomin and the Little My in 1953, which was awarded for the fourth time that year.
[Mareike Jendis]
''Mumins wundersame Deutschlandabenteuer. Zur Rezeption von Tove Jansons Muminbüchern.''
' Dissertation 2001, S. 53.''[ auf den Seiten der Schwedischen Bibliotheksvereinigung, abgerufen am 2. Januar 2017.] It was Jansson's first literary award.
[Tuula Karjalainen: ''Tove Jansson. Die Biografie.'' Aus dem Finnischen von Anke Michler-Janhunen und Regine Pirschel. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8251-7900-7, S. 213–215.]
References
External links
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1952 children's books
Moomin books