The Moomins and the Great Flood, Tove Jansson (80th Anniversary Edition)

The Moomins and the Great Flood, Tove Jansson (80th Anniversary Edition)New Hardback In the run up to Moomins eightieth anniversary (2025) the spotlight is on The Moomins and The Great Flood and the first glimpse it offers of Moomin Valley. Tove Jansson wrote this first ever Moomin story in 1945, in the wake of World War II, and although a children's tale, it vividly evokes the displacement of refugees throughout Europe at the time. A global Moomin. com campaign will celebrate the eighty years of the Moomins with the

from Romania's Carpathian mountains and the Hungarian Steppe to Perthshire's rivers and the dune forests of the Netherlands

and it has never completely died down

edited and put in context by Patrick Gregory and Elizabeth Nurser

He describes the near constant action in graphic terms

but by 1871 he was captured

Callum impulsively decides to stay (and doesn't bother telling his parents)

Christendom against the Infidel

Why are most British parents on below-average income

to the elusive kingfisher near rivers and marshes

she moved to Hong Kong with her husband for his career and resigned herself to being 'just the wife'

The gunners may not have always shared the trench experiences of the infantry in the front line

Over the last 150 years