Tove Jansson The Memoirs Of Moominpappa (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Memoirs Of MoominpappaCondition: NewEAN: 9781908745675Format: HardbackRelease Date: 10/05/2017ISBN-10: 1908745673ISBN: 9781908745675Edition: MainPublisher: Sort of BooksDescription: Special collectors' hardback editions lovingly restored to original designs'I love these editions - so beautifully produced, so solid and permanent, just as Tove Jansson deserved.' Philip PullmanA beautiful collectors' edition of this classic Moomin story, using original 50s and 60s cover artwork, gorgeous endpapers and including for the first time a special prologue written by Tove but never before published in the UK. '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 Memoirs of Moominpappa, a book written to delight his dear son Moomintroll and friends. What follows is a story about storytelling itself. Moominpappa weaves one fabulous tale after another, writing at night to read aloud by day and featuring not only the fearless, adventurous author but also the fathers of Sniff and Snufkin - the rather muddled Muddler and the carefree Joxter. Add to this mix the genius inventor Hodgkins and a grand finale in which Moominpappa rescues a shipwrecked Moominmamma from the waves and the fun becomes irresistible.The Memoirs of Moominpappa, was first published in the UK in 1950 under the title The Exploits of Moominpapa. In the early 1960s Tove Jansson substantially revised this text, redrawing pictures and reinstating her preferred title. This is the very first time the revised edition has become available in the UK. From the publisher of The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree (all proceeds to Oxfam) here's the Moomin gift editions.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 188mmItem Length: 138mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Tove JanssonBook Series: Moomins Collectors' EditionsGenre: Children's BooksTopic: Baby & Picture BooksRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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