![]() Her drawings are fantastical designs, at times reminiscent of Japanese woodcuts, some completed with a few simple lines and others with rich textures and contrasts, but always beautiful and containing areas of open space that mirror the open spaces in her writing. ![]() The genius of Jansson’s illustrations is shown by the fact that they have never dated. Despite having lived with two of the Moomin books since the late 1960’s, I’m still struck by the surprising, original flavour of the series, which springs from a confident and independent artistic vision expressed in what Philip Pullman calls ‘a perfect marriage of word and picture’. The first Moomin book published in English, it was actually the third written.Ī recent peek at Goodreads tells me that some readers have turned to the perennially popular Moomin series, written and illustrated by Finnish cartoonist Tove Jansson between 19. ![]() ![]() My original copy of ‘Finn Family Moomintroll’, acquired in about 1969. ![]()
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