Moominpappa at Sea (Moomins Fiction)

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The story begins with Moominpappa not feeling needed around his home in Moominvalley, so he decides to pick up his family and move to an island he has only seen on the map.

And then the whole series got rereleased this year for the 100th anniversary of Tove Jansson's birth. Ahti Jokinen lukee pääosin todella hyvin, vain hänen Pikku Myynsä hihitys ärsytti välillä suunnattomasti. The book was funny because Moominpapa was really serious and Moomimama didn't really like the island.There have been in picture books and in the graphic novel occasional works of genius where the producer of the text and the producer of the art being the same person fuse the art and the text into a seamless work of genius. De todas maneras, sabes que es una joya de la literatura, que los dibujos de Tove son exquisitos y que reirás, pero que también llorarás con los Moomin. There is a wisdom in these stories, as well as a deep connection with nature, that I suspect will appeal to adult readers more than children. Moominpappa tried to lose his fear and tried to make a home, tried to know how and why, tried to accept the nature of the sea. Not for the first time in the series, this book revolves around the sea, the author seems slightly obsessed with it.

If Moominland Midwinter is about a journey from a place of depression to one of hope and joy, Moominpappa at Sea is about acceptance. Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and lighthouse where he’ll feel alert and important again. The Moomin books are like love letters dedicated to nature: even the smallest critters and plants are described and illustrated, and the forces of nature are described with respect and grandeur. The story began dark, and it only got darker and more suffocating the longer it continued, a feeling of inevitable doom lingered around the lonely island and the huge lighthouse the Moomin family moved into. Finding a dot on the map which may or may not be a bit of fly poo, they set of to inhabit a new island.The other books in the series are also phenomenal in terms of the range they have in tone and flavour.