E adesso, che succede? Un libro su Mimla, il troll Mumin e la piccola Mi

Most Swedish people know this brilliant nonsense poem, which in my humble opinion is as good as anything in Lewis Carroll. But it's so hard to convey the attraction of poetry to people who don't know the language. When you translate it, Tove Jansson's wonderful airy soufflé just falls flat. In LARA , Leggi tutto

A moomin picture book with rhyming text. Little my is missing, so moomin helps her sister Mymble search for her. On the way they meet lots of characters from Moomin valley. The illustrations are full page and very good, each page has a cut out part to look through to the next page and the reader is

I got this book from the library because a GR friend had recommended, “Moomin: the complete Tove Jansson comic strip”. They didn’t have that, but they had this book. I do wish I had run across this book 30-35 years ago. Then my sons would have been at the age when I was always reading to them. I so Leggi tutto

I love the way this book looks. The format is beautiful, the die-cut pages are wonderful, the words are written in a whimsically non-uniform script. The book is great to look at. I'm not so big on the text. It's not that it's bad, it's just not really Moomins. It's the characters but not the feeling Leggi tutto

Genialiskt lekande med språket, bilder och berättelsen som form!

In this brilliant nonsense poem, which easily stands comparison with Lewis Carroll, Mumintroll is on his way home with a can of milk when he enters the dangerous-looking woods around nightfall: Från mjölkbutiken, klockan femEtt litet mumintroll gick hemEn kanna full med mjölk han barOch vägen lång Leggi tutto

I just love the Moomins so much! This rhyming story, strongly reminiscent of Dr. Seuss, has Moomintroll, the Mymble's Daughter, and Little My traveling trying to get home to Moominmamma with the milk she asked for. They see the Hemulen, the Fillyjonk, and others on their way. the pages are cut to gi Leggi tutto

Ihana! Kuvitus ja kirjan aukot kiehtovat pikku lukijaa loputtomiin, eikä aikuinen lukija voi olla pitämättä kirjan kotoisasta kielestä, jossa Mymmelillä on "kolttu juovikas" ja Hommuli "käyttää pölynimijää".

En söt liten bok som jag bara blev glad av att läsa.

I have been thinking a great deal lately about the relationship between text and illustrations in children's literature. I can name three examples off the top of my head where the pictures go far beyond the words they ostensibly illustrate. In the first, Robert Frost's poem, Stopping By Woods on a Sn Leggi tutto