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Tove Jansson

Born

in Helsinki, Finland

August 09, 1914

Died

June 27, 2001

Genre

Children's, Classics, Comics

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Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.

Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 280,329 ratings · 27,206 reviews · 936 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud (Contributor), Sophia Jansson (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,682 ratings — published 1972 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2) 4.25 avg rating — 23,637 ratings — published 1946 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1) by Tove Jansson, David McDuff (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 22,211 ratings — published 1945 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) 4.31 avg rating — 19,441 ratings — published 1948 — 214 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6) 4.40 avg rating — 18,143 ratings — published 1957 — 164 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5) by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton (translator) 4.29 avg rating — 14,504 ratings — published 1954 — 152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominpappa at Sea (The Moomins, #8) 4.22 avg rating — 12,353 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9) by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 11,607 ratings — published 1970 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from Moominvalley (The Moomins, #7) 4.31 avg rating — 11,489 ratings — published 1962	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fair Play by Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal (Translator), Ali Smith (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 7,970 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Tove Jansson

Mumintrollen (9 books)
by

Tove Jansson,

Kingsley Hart (Translator)

4.25 avg rating — 148,656 ratings

Moomin Comic Strip (14 books)
by

Tove Jansson

4.27 avg rating — 41,829 ratings

Moomin: The Complete * Jansson Comic Strips (11 books)
by

Tove Jansson (Illustrator),

Lars Jansson (Writer)

4.33 avg rating — 13,615 ratings

Moomin Picture Books (26 books)
by

Tove Jansson

4.30 avg rating — 8,395 ratings

Країна мумі-тролів (3 books)
by

Tove Jansson,

Туве Янссон,

Наталя Іваничук (Translator)

4.54 avg rating — 1,362 ratings

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Quotes by Tove Jansson (?)

“One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
― Tove Jansson

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“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
― Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 01

tags: aspirations

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“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley

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August 2025 New School Poll

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (1941), 253 pages

40 votes, 25.8%

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972) 170 pages

31 votes, 20.0%

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles (1969), 470 pages

31 votes, 20.0%

Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (1934) 352 pages

16 votes, 10.3%

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (1943) 256 pages

15 votes, 9.7%

Manhatten Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925) 342 pages

14 votes, 9.0%

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (1941) 478 pages

8 votes, 5.2%

155 total votes

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