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Moominsummer madness by tove jansson, 9781908745699, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. By 1954, when the fourth moomin novel moominsummer madness was published her books had become world famous. The novel forms the basis of episodes 2830 in the 1990 tv series. My first janssonian contribution to the tove trove library is the fourth book in the moomin series, first published in 1954. Tove jansson moominsummer madness vintage 1955 puffin. Moominsummer madness, the fourth in tove janssons classic series of books about moominvalley, is enchanting and full of exciting. Moominites tend to consider this book, first published in 1954. Moominsummer madness is the fourth in the series of tove janssons moomins books, published in 1954. Then a great flood wave came crashing through moomin valley. When a flood sweeps through the valley, the moomins must. Tove jansson 19142001 was born in helsinki and spent much of her life in finland. Moominsummer madness by tove jansson overdrive rakuten. Moominsummer madness, the fourth in tove janssons classic series of books about moominvalley, is enchanting and full of exciting adventures and surprises, some of them odd even by moomin standards. The finnish artist and author tove jansson 19142001 wrote and illustrated her first moomin story, the moomins and the great flood, in 1945 as a form of escape from the dark shadows of war.
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