The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My

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The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My
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First Swedish edition
Author Tove Jansson
Original titleHur gick det sen? Boken om Mymlan, Mumintrollet och Lilla My
Translator Silvester Mazzarella, Sophie Hannah
IllustratorTove Jansson
Cover artistTove Jansson
Language Swedish
Series Moomins
Genre Picture book
Publication date
1952
Publication place Finland
ISBN 1-883211-10-7 (English) 978-2-7234-6766-7 (French)
OCLC 40510615
[E] 21
LC Class PZ8.3.J265 Mo 1996

The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My was the first Moomin picture book by Finnish author Tove Jansson, published in 1952 in Swedish. It is the first Moomin book to be adapted into an iPad app. [1]

Contents

Plot

Moomintroll is taking milk back home to his mother, Moominmamma when he meets The Mymble who is searching for her missing sister Little My. 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. [2] [3] It was Jansson's first literary award. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Celebrating Tove Jansson". Library of Congress. 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  2. ↑ Mareike Jendis: Mumins wundersame Deutschlandabenteuer. Zur Rezeption von Tove Jansons Muminbüchern. Dissertation 2001, S. 53.
  3. ↑ Archived (Date missing) at biblioteksforeningen.org (Error: unknown archive URL) auf den Seiten der Schwedischen Bibliotheksvereinigung, retrieved 2 January 2017.
  4. ↑ 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.
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