Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson

Condition Used paperback with light cover and edge wear and age-toned pages. Read full condition

Used paperback with light cover and edge wear and age-toned pages.

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About this book

After a flood drives the Moomin family from their home, they take refuge in a mysterious floating theatre. Their unfamiliar surroundings lead to a succession of comic misunderstandings and midsummer adventures in this illustrated Moomin story.

Condition: Used paperback with light cover and edge wear and age-toned pages.

Book details

  • Author: Tove Jansson
  • Publisher: Puffin Books
  • Publication: Undated later printing; Puffin edition first published 1971
  • Edition / printing: Puffin edition, 25th printing; not a first printing
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 9780140305012
  • ISBN-10: 0140305017

Written and illustrated by Tove Jansson; translated from Swedish by Thomas Warburton. First published in English in 1955.

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