“Clever, gentle, witty, and completely engrossing.” - Jeff Smith, author of Bone She has the extraordinary gift of writing books that are very clearly for children, but can also be enjoyed when the child, like me, is over sixty and can still find new pleasures with the insights that come from adulthood.” - Sir Terry Pratchett
“Tove Jansson is undoubtedly one of the greatest children's writers there has ever been.
These simple stories resonate with profound and complex emotions that are like nothing else in literature for children or adults: intensely Nordic, and completely universal.” - Philip Pullman “Jansson was a genius of a very subtle kind. “A gentle, offbeat fantasy.” - The Horn Book “The adventures of the easygoing Moomintrolls have all the crispness and tart surprise of a lingonberry, thanks to Jansson's ineffably light touch, her uncanny sensitivity to universal childhood emotions, and her gift for terse, naturalistic dialogue.” - Entertainment Weekly She has a thistledown touch.” - The Washington Post Book World I found the writing and invention as appealing as ever. “It's more than forty years since Jansson's Moomintrolls first appeared. “The Moomin books make for both splendid bedtime read-alouds and solitary savoring.” - Wall Street Journal
“If you had no shame reading Harry Potter on the subway, there's no need to hide Tove Jansson's witty, whimsically illustrated Finnish series.” - Daily Candy “These charming fantasies are propelled by a childlike curiosity and filled with quiet wisdom, appealing geniality, and a satisfying sense of self-discovery.” - School Library “We need Moominland for its gentle pace, its sense of beauty and awe, and its spirit of friendliness and empathy-now more than ever.” - The Horn Book “There is, in short, everything in the Moon books: giant comets and secret caves and tree houses and stilts and magic-carpet clouds and amusement parks run by despotic practical-joking kings and time machines and ski instructors.” - Harper's Jansson had a studio in Helsinki but spent most of her time at her home on a small island called Klovharu. In 1966, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her body of work.
In addition to her Moomin books, she also wrote several novels, drew comic strips and worked as a painter and illustrator. Born into an artistic family-her father was a sculptor and her mother was a graphic designer and illustrator-Jansson studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, and L’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She is the author of the Moomin books, including Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll. Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki and spent much of her life in Finland.
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