New Releases by Tove Jansson

Was der Goldene Schnitt ist oder wie ein Wald gemalt werden muss, wie man Künstlerfeste feiert und was man einen Künstler unter keinen Umständen fragen darf - über all das weiß die Tochter des Bildhauers haargenau Bescheid. Kein Wunder - nicht umsonst schläft sie in der elterlichen Atelierwohnung auf dem Schlafregal und behält den Überblick. Sogar im Sommer auf der Schäreninsel sieht das Künstlerauge immer mit, selbst wenn sich die Familie ausgiebig dem Angeln, Pilzesammeln oder dem Toben der Elemente hingibt. Eine faszinierende, eigenwillige Welt tut sich auf. Tove Jansson erzählt die Geschichte ihrer fantastischen Kindheit, von Bürgertum und Bohème, Geborgenheit und Abenteuer gleichermaßen geprägt.

The Moomins picnic with their ancestors, a pair of pirates, and, best of all, Mymble Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format. After a disastrous helicopter ride through a thunderstorm, the entire Moomin family is stranded on a desert island—the very island their ancestors came from! They make the best of it, hunting for their supper, exploring mysterious tunnels, and salvaging items from a wrecked pirate ship (including the Mymble!), but their ancestors don''t let them live in peace and quiet for too long. Soon the whole island will have to deal with the explosive consequences of their ancestors'' misbehavior. Tove Jansson''s flawless cartooning is brought to life in a whole new way within these pages. A delight for the whole family!

Moomin and the Little Ghost is a brand new Moomin picture book!The Moomin Family are relaxing on holiday; with the exception of Moomin. Every night he is being visited by a little ghost and Moomin is getting more and more scared by him. His friends and family don''t know what to do to help him. Then one night, Moomin''s beloved friend - Snorkmaiden, goes missing and Moomin bravely sets off to find her. What will happen next...?The fifth in a series of Moomin picture books. This delightful story is a gently affirming read, perfect for Halloween and snuggling up!Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland''s stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into 34 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.Look out for these other Moomin picture books:Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure; Moomin and the Birthday Button; Moomin and the New Friend; Moomin and the Winter Snow

Moominvalley is flooded, so Snorkmaiden and Moomin head out to rescue anyone stranded in the deluge. They bring home Miss La Goona, the leading lady of the visiting circus, who turns out to be quite a demanding houseguest. Nonetheless, Moomin, having read a few too many romantic novels, falls head over heels in love with her, and chaos ensues.

Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate. Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of doors. The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales. This year everybody’s talking about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives with her simpleminded brother and a dog she refuses to name. She has no use for the white lies that smooth social intercourse, and she can see straight to the core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children’s book illustrator, appears to be Katri’s opposite: a respected member of the village, if an aloof one. Anna lives in a large empty house, venturing out in the spring to paint exquisitely detailed forest scenes. But Anna has something Katri wants, and to get it Katri will take control of Anna’s life and livelihood. By the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most cherished illusions.

THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC IN A NEW SOFTCOVER FORMAT Due to the resounding success of the hardcover Moomin comics by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, D+Q is reissuing this classic comic in an all-new format. Available in an affordable kid-proof but kid-friendly flexicover, and in full color for the first time, these books are slimmer versions of the hardcovers, with one story in each volume while previous editions collected four. Moomin''s Winter Follies Moomin wakes up one morning to find the pond frozen over, and rather than hibernate, the family decides to brave the winter weather. At first, their wintry adventure seems to be going swimmingly, until Mr. Brisk of the Great Outdoors Club takes over and forces everyone to embrace the winter sports, whether they want to or not.

Moomintroll is bursting with excitement - the sun is out and he and Little My and all the Moomins are sailing to Lonely Island to look for treasure. But there is so much to do beforehand that by the time they are ready, night has fallen. Will they find treasure by the light of the moon?

An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; he has a surprising suggestion that will resolve both their row and his own ambivalence about the art market. A draughtsman''s obsession with drawing locomotives provides a dark twist to a love story. A cartoonist takes over the work of a colleague who has suffered a nervous breakdown only to discover that his own sanity is in danger.In these witty, sharp, often disquieting stories, Tove Jansson reveals the fault-lines in our relationship with art, both as artists and as consumers. Obsession, ambition, and the discouragement of critics are all brought into focus in these wise and cautionary tales.

''Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.'' Ali Smith Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson''s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer''s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith. A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson''s first book for adults, The Sculptor''s Daughter (1968) plus seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray when a disconcerting young boy arrives; an artist returns to an old flat to discover that her life has been eerily usurped. Philosophical and profound, but with the deceptive lightness that is her hallmark, Travelling Light is guaranteed to surprise and transport.

A New York Review Books Original Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.

Leave Moominvalley? Is it possible? Yes, even the Moomin family need a change of scenery sometimes, so they''re off to live in a lighthouse on a tiny island. Here they find space to grow, and to do things they couldn''t in their comfortable, cluttered valley home. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves.

Les Moomins sont une famille très unie, de créatures rondes comme des hippopotames, qui mènent une vie de bohème et d''aventure. Sur la route qui les mène à Moominpapa, le petit troll et sa maman rencontrent nombre de créatures toutes plus ou moins dangereuses.

Everyone knows the Moomins sleep through the winter. But this year, Moomintroll has woken up early. So while the rest of the family slumber, he decides to visit his favorite summer haunts. But all he finds is this strange white stuff. Even the sun is gone! Moomintroll is angry: whoever Winter is, she has some nerve. Determined to discover the truth about this most mysterious of all seasons, Moomintroll goes where no Moomin has gone before.

Mumifar og Mumidalen lever videre i de tre næste romaner i Tove Janssons vidunderlige romanserie fra Mumidalen. I 1950 udkom Mumirfars erindringsbog. Her afslører Mumifar, at han i virkeligheden er et hittebarn, født under helt usædvanlige stjerner og opdraget i Hemulernes strenge børnehjem. I Farlig midsommer fra 1954 rammer en mægtig flodbølge Mumidalen, og Mumifamiliens elskede hjem forsvinder i bølgerne. Et besynderligt og mystisk fartøj dukker pludselig op og redder dem. Troldvinter fra 1957 afslutter denne samling med historien om det år, da Mumitrolden vågnede af sin vintersøvn midt i den mørkeste vinter og bliver den første Mumitrold, der oplever vinteren. Med forord af Anders Lund Madsen, der er en stor Mumielsker og -kender.

When a flood sweeps through the valley, the Moomins must find a new house. And with typical Moomin good luck, one just happens to be floating by. It looks normal enough, but there are curtains where one wall should be, strange rows of lights, and other odd amenities. Then Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden disappear, and the family realize that the house may hold the answers to more than they ever dreamed.

In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home with milk for Moominmamma. A simple trip turns into a colorful adventure as Moomintroll meets Mymble, who has lost her sister, Little My. Along the way, they endure the hijinks of all the charming characters of the Moomin world, including the Fillijonks and Hattifatteners. Will Moomintroll ever make it home safe and sound? A beautiful and boisterous story by internationally acclaimed children''s author Tove Jansson, this picture book is sure to tickle the fancies of parents and kids as well as Moomintroll fans everywhere!

En esta nueva aventura de la serie, un tsunami inunda el valle de los mumin en la noche de San Juan, y la familia Mumin, desamparada y sin techo, encontrará refugio en un teatro flotante que va a la deriva. Al principio creen que es una «casa» bien particular, pero cuando llegan a una bahía lejana... se dan cuenta de que lo que se espera de ellos es la representación de una función de teatro. Se ponen manos a la obra y presentan el drama Las chicas león, que no va a salir todo lo bien que esperaban... Pero, a fin de cuentas, les habrá dado la oportunidad de hacer teatro y divertirse.

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs. They discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love. “On an island,” thinks the grandmother, “everything is complete.” In The Summer Book, Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life. Tove Jansson, whose Moomintroll comic strip and books brought her international acclaim, lived for much of her life on an island like the one described in The Summer Book, and the work can be enjoyed as her closely observed journal of the sounds, sights, and feel of a summer spent in intimate contact with the natural world. The Summer Book is translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal.

Tove Janssons mummibøker, som hver på sin måte utmerker seg med sin poetiske kraft og allegoriske krumspring, er her utgitt på nytt. Bøkene rommer en livsvisdom som har gjort dem udødelige. De har for lengst oppnådd klassikerstatus og er oversatt til en rekke språk. I denne boka, som kom ut på norsk for første gang i 1966, lengter Mummipappa etter havet. Han bestemmer at familien skal flytte ut til et sluknet fyrtårn i havgapet, men det nye livet blir ikke riktig slik han hadde tenkt seg. Dette er den nest siste mummiboka Tove Jansson skrev. Handlingsgangen er mindre dramatisk enn i de foregående bøkene og problemstillingene er mer voksenorienterte. Boka er gjengitt med forfatterens tegninger. (Annoteringen er utarbeidet av Statens bibliotektilsyns rådgivende utvalg for barne- og ungdomslitteratur). Roman for førskolebarn/ungdomstrinnet.

«Pocs llibres des de Robinson Crusoe han evocat la joia de viure en una illa amb tanta força com aquest.» [«The Observer»] «Tove Jansson era un geni. Aquesta és una novel·la meravellosa, preciosa i intel·ligent, i també molt divertida.» [Philip Pullman] El llibre de l’estiu és una singular obra de ficció que combina aventures, humor i filosofia. Amb una prosa evocadora, Jansson ens transporta a una remota illa dels golfs de Finlàndia per explicar-nos l’especial relació entre una dona gran i la seva néta, Sophia. Envoltades d’una naturalesa recreada magistralment i enmig d’una existència aparentment reposada, les dues protagonistes viuen un estiu excepcional. Jansson captiva el lector amb una cartografia plena de reflexions sobre l’amor, l’esperit vitalista i la mort. Un relat d’exploració personal que ha esdevingut un clàssic modern de la literatura escandinava. Tove Jansson Nascuda a Hèlsinki (Finlàndia) el 1914, és mundialment coneguda per ser la creadora dels Mumins, una saga de personatges bohemis, amants de la natura i tolerants amb les diferències, que han captivat lectors de totes les edats. A més, és il·lustradora i autora de reculls de relats breus i novel·les, entre les quals cal destacar «Sommarboken» (1972), «Solstaden» (1974) i «Der ärliga bedragaren» (1982), amb reflexions des de la vellesa, i «Rent spel» (1989), un text autobiogràfic sobre l’amistat entre dues artistes. Ha rebut el premi Nils Holgersson (1953), la medalla Hans Christian Andersen (1966) i el premi de l’Acadèmia sueca (1972). Jansson va morir el 2001.

Lonely and frightened Toffle remains unnoticed and alone in the world until he finds a frightened girl who needs comforting.

Ein riesiger Komet nähert sich aus der Tiefe des Alls: Mumin und Schnüferl begeben sich auf die gefährliche Reise zu einer Sternwarte, um Tag und Stunde der sich ankündigenden Katastrophe zu erfahren.

Auf der Suche nach seinem verschwundenen Vater wandert der kleine Mumin mit seiner Mutter durch die endlosen finnischen Wälder.