Synopses & Reviews
It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure! Moomintroll and his friends Snufkin and Sniff find the Hobgoblin's top hat, all shiny and new and just waiting to be taken home. They soon realize that his is no ordinary hat; it can turn anything — or anyone — into something else!
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"The Moomin books make for both splendid bedtime read-alouds and solitary savoring." Wall Street Journal
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"Jansson's evocations of nature are powerfully succinct....This is a terrific book for reading aloud." The Washington Post Book World
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"A lost treasure now rediscovered....A surrealist masterpiece." Neil Gaiman
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"Jansson was a genius of a very subtle kind. 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
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"Tove Jansson is undoubtedly one of the greatest children's writers there has ever been. 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
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"Clever, gentle, witty, and completely engrossing." Jeff Smith, author of Bone
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"It's not just Tove Jansson's wonderfully strange fairytale world that so appeals but also her beautiful line work and exquisite sense of design." Lauren Child
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"There is, in short, everything in the Moom 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
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Springtime arrives in Moominvalley, along with a shiny magic top hat that Moomintroll and his friends Snufkin and Sniff discover can turn anything — or anyone — into something else!
About the Author
Tove Jansson grew up in Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of nine novels and four original picture books about the Moomintrolls which have been translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Children's Book Medal for her body of work. Jansson died in 2001 at the age of eighty-six.