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Title: Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson, Elizabeth Portch ISBN: 0-374-41331-2 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 2 generations of reading pleasure
Comment: My sister and I read the Moomin fantasy stories in the 1960s, when we were children. We STILL share jokes about plot lines today! When my son was 5, I bought them and we read them. We could hardly put them down, and he wanted to read the entire series through again the minute we finished. I hadn't realized how entertaining they were for adults. Maybe it's the wry humor of Finland coming through. While these are chapter books, they do have some absolutely charming illustrations. My son ... prefers them to Harry Potter (which he is hearing aloud again at school). It's best to read them kind of in order, as there is a time line to the books insofar as characters are introduced. Comet in Moominland is the first one, in my opinion, and Moominpappa's Memoirs is last. You can read the others in any order, in between. Moominsummer Madness was a little bit weak, I thought; but the others are just terrific, children's classics! Also great take home messages subtly presented, such as: even orphans can find a family; friends help friends out of jams; people go through moods, and it's OK; people who look scary and behave strangely, can maybe just be misunderstood. I credit these books as major contributors to his outstanding love for reading. The characters are beautifully drawn, diverse and imperfect; while there is a mother, a father, and a son, family structure is not stereotyped; the plot lines keep your attention; and the prose created by the translators is superb. They may be hard to find in libraries but they are WELL WORTH the search (or purchase).
Rating: 5
Summary: Memorable for a lifetime
Comment: The Moomin books were read to me when I was a child, in the sixties, and were among the first books I loved so much that I had to pick them up and reread them on my own. I've never forgotten them, and I'm so pleased to find them in print. COMET IN MOOMINLAND and MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER had the strongest effect on me, but I adored them all. The Moomins are unique in children's literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: A 6-Star book!
Comment: Reviewer "angrymofo" summed thes books up beautifully.
I read several of the books from Moominland when i was about 6 or 7. Comet in Mominland was my favorite by far. The very instant i finished reading the last page in this book i would turn to the beginning and start reading it again. I can't remember exactly how many times i read this book! I still have my old, old copy that was given to me when we lived in England. Upon diggin this book out of my "archives" i felt that i had to preserve it as well as i could so that my child could read it. On a whim, i thought i would see if it showed up on Amazon (i had never seen any Moominland books in bookstores). I was overjoyed to discover that they were available in the US. So now my child has his very own, crispy-new copy of Comet in Moominland waiting for him.
Bliss!
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Title: Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton ISBN: 0374453101 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Moominland Midwinter (Moomintroll Series) by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton ISBN: 0374453039 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart ISBN: 0374453063 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton ISBN: 0374474133 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 06 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart ISBN: 0374453098 Publisher: Sunburst Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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