{"product_id":"9781908745996","title":"Moominland Midwinter (Colour)","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"block-f7f2a81be17e3610c2ee\" data-sqsp-block=\"text\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA special edition with rare colour images and fold out panorama\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn 1961, at the request of her Italian Publisher, Tove Jansson created a unique new edition of \u003cem\u003eMoominland Midwinter\u003c\/em\u003e, the tale in which Moomin wakes from hibernation to contend all on his own with the mysterious new world of winter. The text and internal line drawings of this much loved story were unchanged, but she added a beautiful new cover illustration and seven glorious full-page colour illustrations plus a colour panorama. It was the only Moomin title that she reworked in this way and became a prized item for fans and collectors. For the first time, this edition will now be available for Moomin fans in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eTove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin story, \u003cem\u003eThe Moomins and the Great Flood, \u003c\/em\u003ein 1945 though it was the next two books \u003cem\u003eComet in Moominland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFinn Family Moomintroll\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, that brought her worldwide fame. \u003cem\u003eMoominland Midwinter\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1957, represented an important shift in her approach to creating children’s stories, asserting that children could cope with the full gamut of emotions, including moments of loneliness and isolation. As a result her books have been a source of comfort and inspiration to children and adults who have found themselves coping with new and unfamiliar situations. Tove credited her life-long partner Tuulikki Pietilä (the inspiration for the wise and able Too-ticky) for encouraging her towards greater emotional honesty and depth. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eMoomin \u003c\/em\u003ebooks have since appeared in more than sixty languages and have remained in print for seventy years as new  generations of readers become enchanted by the characters, the gentle philosophy, adventurousness and fun of the stories and the timeless beauty of their illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-8d41a7c7e1a09f8c5dd8\" data-sqsp-block=\"line\" data-block-type=\"47\" class=\"sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1628626859066_11665\" data-sqsp-block=\"text\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003ethis edition \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis colour edition of \u003cem\u003eMoominland Midwinter \u003c\/em\u003eis based on \u003cem\u003eMagia d’Inverno, \u003c\/em\u003ethe 1961 Italian edition of the book, for which Tove Jansson created six colour illustrations and a new cover. This edition has two additional images – the first cover image\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e painted for Puffin – and the wonderful \u003cem\u003epanorama \u003c\/em\u003eshowing events and characters in the book first used on the cover of the 1972 French Nathan edition. These colour images have been restored using the originals in the Moomin Museum in Tampere, Finland, by James Zambra, Tove’s great-nephew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44384910999594,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0152\/7041\/2388\/files\/Moominland_Midwinter_COLOUR_front_cover.webp?v=1779399467","url":"https:\/\/booksofwonder.com\/products\/9781908745996","provider":"Books of Wonder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}