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The Curious Explorer's Guide to the Moominhouse by Tove Jansson
23.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Ladybird Readers
"Hidden in the furthest northern corner of the forests is the MAGICAL land of Moominvalley. Come and explore the Moominhouse as Little My searches for her friend Moomintroll!"
The Dangerous Journey by Tove Jansson, Sophie Hannah
28.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Moomins | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes and sea where birds fly upside down and wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. Old friends from Moomin Valley - Hemulen, Sniff ...Show more
The Exploits of Moominpappa (#4) by Tove Jansson
13.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Moomins | Reading Level: 6-11
'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.
The Listener by Tove Jansson
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In her first ever story collection, Jansson revealed the clarity of vision and light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. From the good listener who begins to betray the secrets confided to her, to vignettes of a city storm or the slow halting of spring, these stories are gifts of origi ...Show more
The Memoirs of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson
27.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Moomins
One cold and windy autumn evening many years ago a newspaper parcel was found on the doorstep of the Home for Moomin Foundlings. In that parcel I lay, quite small and shivering with cold. So begins the remarkable The Memoirs of Moominpappa, a book written to delight his dear son Moomintroll and friend ...Show more
The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley by Philip Ardagh; Frank Cottrell Boyce; Tove Jansson (Illustrator); Macmillan Children's Books Staff
64.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Moomin Ser.
'It's the most wonderful valley in the world.' - MoomintrollStep into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful and unique book; a fun, fascinating and unprecedented look at the wonderful world of the Moomins and their creator, Tove Jansson.Filled with illustrated maps and family trees, fact ...Show more
The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Moomins
Created in 1945, yet published in this country for the very first time, The Moomins and the Great Flood offers an extraordinary glimpse into the creativity and imagination that launched the Moomin books. Moominmamma and young Moomintroll search for the long lost Moominpappa through forest and flood, me ...Show more
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very is ...Show more
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling with ...Show more
Travelling Light by Tove Jansson
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 w ...Show more