Fans of the Moomins have reason to rejoice this summer, as the children’s book characters created by Finnish artist Tove Jansson will alight at the Brooklyn Public Library in “Tove Jansson and the ...

When Tove Jansson wrote her first Moomin story, Europe was at war, forcing millions of people to flee their homes, and the threatened atomic bomb was about to become reality. Feeling too desperate to ...

TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — The Moomins, Finland's most lovable literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this year. The chubby, white, hippopotamus-like characters have captivated ...

The Moomin family – Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll – live in Moominvalley, where they welcome all friends, visitors and vagrants for adventures and sweet treats. Lately, though, the ...

As of February 22, Barnes & Noble is partnering with Moomin Characters Oy Ltd., the global licensor of author and illustrator Tove Jansson’s Moomins, for what is billed as the brand’s first ...

The demise of bookstores in the Amazon AMZN AMZN era is less about structural decline in the market and more about book store chains “simply not being good enough to survive”, according to Barnes & ...

HELSINKI, Finland — Tove Jansson, the Finnish writer and artist who created a fantasy world with international appeal in the Moomin family of trolls, died Wednesday in a Helsinki hospital after a long ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — The Moomins, Finland ...