Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on).

Hailed by the New York Times as 'coming closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel'

In case you didn't know, the Moomins are kind, loyal and welcoming creatures with smooth round snouts, who live in a tall blue house shaped like an old stove in a valley in the forests of Finland. They love sunshine and sleep right through the winter, when the snow turns their house into a great snowball. In spring they wake up, clamber down the rope ladders hanging from their windows ready for fresh new adventures.And so this classic story begins, full of fun and excitement and the most unex...