The Finnish author wrote just a handful of books, but they have lived on. As the little trolls turn 80, see how they were born amid World War 2, amid a wish for a gentler world.

As cited in “Tove Jansson” by Mayumi Tomihara (1954–2025), a Japanese scholar of French philosophy and Swedish literature, ...

Moomin and the Birthday Button Tove Jansson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-374-35050-5. This paper-over-board book launches a series based on Jansson’s original Moomin stories.

Written and illustrated by Jansson, the first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, was published in 1945 and ultimately became the bedrock for an entire creative world.In the story, the ...

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The Moomin characters — adorable Little My, cheeky Snork Maiden and moody Snufkin — gained international fame in 1954, when Jansson made them the protagonists of a comic strip for The Evening ...

As of February 22, Barnes & Noble is partnering with Moomin Characters Oy Ltd., the global licensor of author and illustrator Tove Jansson’s Moomins, for what is billed as the brand’s first ...

Tove Jansson’s Moomin characters may be internationally famous, but a new show in Paris reveals a lesser-known side to the Finnish artist who created them.