Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 146687161X
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.
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374350450
When stricken with a severe cold, Moominpappa decides to set down an account of his eventful youth, which he shares chapter by chapter with Moomintroll, Sniff, and Snufkin.
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1466871644
Tove Jansson's Moomin characters and books are admired the world over. In the United States the series beginning with Finn Family Moomintroll (first published in English in 1945) has accumulated generations of fans. Since Farrar, Straus and Giroux began reissuing the books in 1989, grateful readers old and new have been thrilled to have the stories available again. At last the final installment is being published – oddly, the only book that features none of the Moomin family themselves, though it does take place at their house. There familiar characters converge – Snufkin, the Hemulen, Fillyjonk, and others – seeking out the Moomins' welcoming company, only to find them absent. All remain at the house, all have very different personalities that clash often, but something about their homey cohabitation during the icy winter changes each visitor in a gratifying way. As The Times Literary Supplement put it, Moominvalley in November is "possibly the cleverest of the Moomin books."
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0312608918
A flood hits Moomin Valley and triggers a series of adventures for the Moomins. Illustrations.
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1452963827
A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding as it did in the letters to family, friends, and lovers that make up this volume, a veritable autobiography over the course of six decades—and the only one Jansson ever wrote. And just as letters carry a weight of significance in Jansson’s writing, those she wrote throughout her life reflect the gravity of her circumstances, the depth of her thoughts and feelings, and the critical moments of humor, sadness, and grace that mark an artist’s days. These letters, penned with characteristic insight and wit, provide an almost seamless commentary on Jansson’s life within Helsinki’s bohemian circles and on her island home. Shifting between hope and despair, yearning and happiness, they describe her immersion in art studies and her ascension to fame with the Moomins. They speak frankly of friendship and love, loneliness and solidarity, and also of politics, art, literature, and society. They summon a particular place and time reflected through a mind finely attuned to her culture, her world, and her own nature—all clearly put into biographical and historical context by the volume’s editors, both longtime friends of Tove Jansson—and, in the end, draw a complex, intimate self-portrait of one of the world’s most beloved authors.
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Mankato, MN : Creative Education
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fear
ISBN : 9780886822996
The fillyjonk is seized with a nameless fear, a sense of approaching disaster, but once the calamity occurs she feels peaceful and free.
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374350482
Discover Moomintroll's favorite first words as you share his busy day all the way to bedtime. Moomintroll takes the youngest readers through a day in his life, building simple vocabulary along the way. From dancing to book-browsing, the scenes depicted echo favorite moments in a child's own day, ending on a bedtime note. This adorable board book introduces babies and preschoolers to beloved characters from Swedish author-illustrator Tove Jansson’s beloved Moominworld. Every book celebrates curiosity and promotes Moomin’s core values: imagination, tolerance, humor, friendliness, and independence. Look for these other Moomin board books! Moomin’s Little Book of Numbers Moomin’s Lift-the-Flap Hide and Seek Moomin and the Birthday Button
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1466871628
Enhanced with Tove Jansson's simple, sprightly drawings, this series of delightful stories about life in Moomin Valley has enchanted audiences around the world for more than 70 years. Before he had a family, Moominpappa led a life of adventure and intrigue. But he's never told his story until now. He has a bad cold, and it's the perfect time to remember his youthful endeavors and to ponder the experiences which have made him the remarkable Moomin he is.
Author : Sandra L. Beckett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Children's literature, European
ISBN : 0810854155
Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines in depth eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars. This approach provides a comprehensive discussion of the selected works from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Each essay offers a critical introduction to the text that can serve as a point of departure for literary scholars, professors of children's literature, primary and secondary school teachers, and librarians who are interested in texts that cross languages and cultures.
Author : Leif Dahlberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110285444
The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24–25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary and Media studies, and Law. The contributions discuss the complex relations between law, media and visual phenomena. The common theme of the essays consists in an examination of the scopic field and of regimes of visibility in phenomenological terms, arguing that law constitutes a cognitive and aesthetic field of normative world-making. Rather than merely inverting Shelley’s dictum that the "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", the essays argue in different ways for the necessity to develop a legal aesthetics. The most immediate way of pursuing such a legal aesthetics consists in examining law itself as an aesthetic object, for instance the power of law to produce icons, in the sense of unreadable texts or textiles (Martin Kayman, Gary Watt). Several essays focus on the way that visual art and media can be used to constitute and represent political power, but also to question it and to put it into question (Chiara Battisti, Leif Dahlberg, Elina Druker, Sidia Fiorato, Paul Raffield). Other essays investigate legal structures inherent in the artwork (and the artworld) itself (Ari Hirvonen, Max Liljefors, Christine Poggi, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen). Finally, there are two essays focusing on the use of images and imagery in the legal process, explicity arguing for the need of a legal aesthetics (Daniela Carpi, Richard Sherwin). Although diverse, the individual essays are interconnected with each other in fruitful and critical ways, making both explicit and implict references to each other.
