Moominsummer Madness Tove Jansson Moomins Sunburst Paperback Book 1992 Childrens

Jansson, Tove

A pre-owned paperback copy of Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson, the fourth novel in her beloved Moomins series. This is the US Sunburst Edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, featuring Jansson's own black-and-white illustrations throughout and her unmistakable cover artwork of the Moomins watching a play unfold beneath swept-back theatre curtains. A charming and slightly surreal children's classic that has stayed in print across more than fifty languages since it first appeared in 1954.\n\nThe story opens with a flood sweeping through Moominvalley, forcing Moominmamma, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden to abandon their tall blue house and take refuge in a strange floating dwelling that turns out, of course, to be a theatre. From there it spirals through a chase, a prison break, a play written and performed by Moominpappa himself, and a cast of new characters including the irrepressible Little My. As ever with Jansson, the everyday and the extraordinary sit coE