The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My
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 First Swedish edition | |
| Author | Tove Jansson |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hur gick det sen? Boken om Mymlan, Mumintrollet och Lilla My |
| Translator | Silvester Mazzarella, Sophie Hannah |
| Illustrator | Tove Jansson |
| Cover artist | Tove 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]
Plot
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Celebrating Tove Jansson". Library of Congress. 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
- ^ Mareike Jendis: Mumins wundersame Deutschlandabenteuer. Zur Rezeption von Tove Jansons Muminbüchern. Dissertation 2001, S. 53.
- ^ Archived (Date missing) at biblioteksforeningen.org (Error: unknown archive URL) auf den Seiten der Schwedischen Bibliotheksvereinigung, abgerufen am 2. Januar 2017.
- ^ 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.
