Moomin Book Two: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

ISBN-13:	9781897299197
Publisher:	Drawn & Quarterly
Publication date:	10/30/2007
Series:	Moomin Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	88
Sales rank:	148,099
Product dimensions:	8.76(w) x 12.21(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her seventeen new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.