Moomin / Mischievous Nature Anniversary Edition

All of the original Tove Jansson drawings and artwork for the nine Moomin novels in one book. No words — just pictures. There are some 500 illustrations presented in chronological order. The illustrations tell their own story; of the Moomin characters and their adventures; and of Tove Jansson’s remarkable talent and career as an illustrator. We gave the book the title Mischievous Nature. It relates to the characters’ rather irreverent behaviour and to the natural world.

This year the book is a lay flat softback with green linen textured cardboard cover inside a hardboard clothbound slipcase. Inside there are 288 pages of illustrations and book cover images. Some are printed so big they carry on around the page end and on to the next…