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28 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1960
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About the author
Tove Jansson
877 books3,869 followersTove 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.
Jansson's Moomin books have been translated into 33 languages.
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.
Jansson's Moomin books have been translated into 33 languages.
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December 29, 2019
This wonderful book tells the story of Toffle who is so shy he cannot bear to spend another night in his house so packs his case and runs away. The rhyming text takes us through the world Toffle inhabits, where we spot many familiar Moomin creatures in colours I would expect to dislike but am strangely attracted to here, ginger brown, a dark baby blue, olive green, yellow, peachy pink, red and grey. Toffle moves away from the hustle and bustle to find Snufkin playing his silver flute in summer's sleepy bay. Toffle moves on, past a fairground with the Hemulen and Hattifatteners, until he reaches a beach. Here he finds a giant shell much bigger than himself and he reflects how nice it would be to share this joy with someone else. Next Toffle finds a bottle with a message from a Miffle who is alone and scared in the Groke's back yard. Knowing someone is even more shy and needy than himself gives Toffle the courage to help rescue Miffle and then live happily ever after in I love this story and the funny rhythm of the rhyming, read hundreds of times this has never lost its charm.
April 21, 2021
I just discovered that there's a freely available recording of Tove Jansson reading this story herself. You can listen to it here.
March 19, 2022
Absolutely wonderful little-kid version of "you won't know unless you try." I love Tove Jansson's art, and her words always seem to speak directly to my inner weirdo.
Now, go watch the musical version (subtitled in English and Spanish, as you prefer) from 1980. It, too, is an absolute joy.
January 29, 2013
I had some time on my hands so I went to the bookstore and sat in a corner reading children's books, because I can.
And it was lovely actually.
The only reason it doesn't get five stars is that to me the English translation is unfamiliar - when it comes to names etc. For instance I found it odd that Hemulen was translated to "The Hemulen" because in Norwegian and Swedish the -en at the end is an indicator of definite form and a definite article on top seems superfluous in this instance. It would be "The Hemul" or just "Hemulen" if they had wanted to do it in a more sense-making manner for everyone :)
And it was lovely actually.
The only reason it doesn't get five stars is that to me the English translation is unfamiliar - when it comes to names etc. For instance I found it odd that Hemulen was translated to "The Hemulen" because in Norwegian and Swedish the -en at the end is an indicator of definite form and a definite article on top seems superfluous in this instance. It would be "The Hemul" or just "Hemulen" if they had wanted to do it in a more sense-making manner for everyone :)
December 4, 2024
Läst hundratals gånger :-)
Och lyssnat på skivan måååånga gånger...
Nu även på Tove Janssons inläsning på Svenska Yle som
har alla hennes inläsningar att tillgå gratis
Och lyssnat på skivan måååånga gånger...
Nu även på Tove Janssons inläsning på Svenska Yle som
har alla hennes inläsningar att tillgå gratis
December 3, 2025
Erittäin moneen kertaan luettu ja kuunneltu kirja, ja aina vain se viehättää. Jansson kyllä osasi kirjoittaa näitä lastenkirjoja ja tehdä niistä melkein taianomaisia sekä tarinaltaan että kuvitukseltaan. Kirja kertoo Nyytistä, joka on yksinäinen ja lähtee etsimään ystäviä.
July 30, 2025
Absolutely charming and the illustrations are lovely. I need to reread it, it may even be five stars. A book about loneliness and conquering fears. My first Moomin book, but definitely not my last.
I came across a store in England that exclusively sold Moomin merchandise and I had never heard of it, but I fell in love with the illustration and got a tote bag. I decided to try and track down a book and was able to order this via my indie bookstore in town.
I came across a store in England that exclusively sold Moomin merchandise and I had never heard of it, but I fell in love with the illustration and got a tote bag. I decided to try and track down a book and was able to order this via my indie bookstore in town.
July 31, 2019
Knøttet <3
Personlig synes jeg dessverre håndskrevet løkkeskrift er ganske vanskelig å lese, men det er også en del av sjarmen!
Personlig synes jeg dessverre håndskrevet løkkeskrift er ganske vanskelig å lese, men det er også en del av sjarmen!
December 20, 2014
Рядко пониква нещо толкова прекрасно като тази книга. Тя е история, поезия, любовно приятелство (!), не просто любов. Ум и сетива в прегръдка. Ще е чиста благодат да я имаме преведена на български. Кой ще утеши Кнютчето?
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April 19, 2008I loved this book when I was a little kid and just recently read it again. I never realized how much it influenced me.
April 22, 2018
One of the most, if not the book of my childhood. That was a nice nostalgia trip to take.
SEE YA.
SEE YA.
June 27, 2023
A pure joy. Tove treasure. This is a shorter, rhymed picture book story, but just as quirky and pointy as an Moomin story.
January 25, 2021
I have no idea when I saw this little classic first, but it must have been in early childhood. When I saw it again as an adult, all these picture memories came back ... what a classic this is. And beautifully made by Sort Of Books.
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August 23, 2024Högläst för örtionde gången för ettor, lika bra varje gång <3
December 12, 2024
Encouraging Compassion at an Early Age
This is the first of two reviews I am posting to alert Goodreads friends to a terrific holiday gift for any children on your list—gorgeous, hardcover editions of Tove Jansson picture books produced with obvious love by the folks at the Canadian comic publisher Drawn & Quarterly.
As my family and friends know, I'm personally a lifelong fan of the Moomins—and of Jansson's unique way of mingling both deep personal anguish with surprising glimpses of the beautiful creativity that's awaiting us just outside our doors. If only we dare to throw open our doors, that is! Back in 2023, I reviewed another Tove Jansson book in Goodreads, her classic semi-memoir The Summer Book. In that review, I explained why—even though I'm not Scandinavian myself—I have felt so close to Jansson all my life. In that review, wrote in part:
This review is in honor of my father, of blessed memory, who grew up in a deeply troubled household and wondered if he could be a good father when I was born in the early 1950s. He was a World War II veteran who fell in love with reading on a remote island in the Pacific through the Armed Forces Service editions of literature, then came home to be surprised by a calling to ministry. He wound up studying toward his MDiv and a doctorate and his love of literature was woven into both his calling to ministry and his calling to be a father.
He seemed determined to introduce me to world literature at an early age, including ... an English translation of “Moominsummer Madness,” which he had bought when it was published in in 1954—and he was beginning to collect what he thought were children's books in preparation for my birth. I had never seen anything like these creatures, shown in black and white sketches sprinkled through in those storybooks—so I was very curious. And, at my request, my father sat down beside me, began reading to me and I was hooked. He went on to collect more of Jansson’s marvelous storybooks for me and my siblings. In fact, I was not even aware that Jansson also was responsible for a delightful comic strip until I was an adult journalist and had become part of national efforts to preserve classic comic strips. I now have inherited both of my father’s original Moomin editions and I have collected a lot of other Moomin memorabilia, including the reprinted comic strips.
Well, as a child, I also would have adored these picture-books! Unfortunately, they weren't available back then. In fact, the translator of Jansson's text for these picture-books wasn't even born herself until 1971! Apparently, editions of these books first appeared in 2003, although I wasn't aware of it at that time. I only discovered these two books while searching for some other Moomin classics just this year. I'm a big fan of other Drawn & Quarterly books, as well—and, somehow my paths through Amazon crossed to display these to me for the first time.
Of course, I immediately bought these two.
So what's in this 'Toffle' book?
When I was just starting kindergarten, I was shy myself. That was partly because as a pastor's kid, aka "PK," we moved in the middle of that year and I encountered some bullying, aimed at any newcomer like me and especially at PKs. Jansson's scruffy little Toffel is a black-and-white character and his sketch showed up so vividly in the storybooks my Dad read to us as children that I was fascinated by him. Why? Because he sparked my own budding sense of compassion. Whenever he popped up, I wondered: Shouldn't someone comfort this little fellow? Who should look out for the "outsiders" on the edges of our circles? Hmm, I thought. Perhaps we all should. That's roughly how my awareness of such compassion grew at that time. Toffle was part of that journey.
And that's essentially the plot of this picture book. Many of the other wildly inventive creatures in Jansson's world show up in these pages, because the well-established denizens of Moomin world are worried about their sad little neighbor. Toffle keeps moping around in isolation—until he finally discovers a smiling little burst of sun-lit hues called a "miffle." Against the odds, they form a caring relationship—Toffle and this miffle.
What I absolutely love about Jansson's world—and this is what instinctively hooked me in the first moment I saw her storybooks as a preschooler—is that Jansson completely redefines the notion of "diversity." In her world, there simply is no recognizable "normal." In Jansson's realm, a creature's size, shape, color and abilities defy the expectations of natural life in our world—and yet these strange creatures also exhibit such pure versions of human emotions and yearnings that we can't help but recognize something of ourselves in them.
As we explore Jansson's tales, we keep glimpsing ourselves in events that unfold—even as our creative expectations continue to expand at every turn.
As I have read Jansson's tales to preschoolers, the most common reaction to turning a page and seeing yet another new picture is: "Who is that?!!" And sometimes: "What is that!?!" That certainly is true of a kid's first glimpse of Toffle.
Of the various hardcover picture books available for kids, this (and the other one I will review today) are my absolute favorites for first-time gift giving to someone you would love to introduce to the Moomins' oh-so-strange-yet-oh-so-recognizable world.
This is the first of two reviews I am posting to alert Goodreads friends to a terrific holiday gift for any children on your list—gorgeous, hardcover editions of Tove Jansson picture books produced with obvious love by the folks at the Canadian comic publisher Drawn & Quarterly.
As my family and friends know, I'm personally a lifelong fan of the Moomins—and of Jansson's unique way of mingling both deep personal anguish with surprising glimpses of the beautiful creativity that's awaiting us just outside our doors. If only we dare to throw open our doors, that is! Back in 2023, I reviewed another Tove Jansson book in Goodreads, her classic semi-memoir The Summer Book. In that review, I explained why—even though I'm not Scandinavian myself—I have felt so close to Jansson all my life. In that review, wrote in part:
This review is in honor of my father, of blessed memory, who grew up in a deeply troubled household and wondered if he could be a good father when I was born in the early 1950s. He was a World War II veteran who fell in love with reading on a remote island in the Pacific through the Armed Forces Service editions of literature, then came home to be surprised by a calling to ministry. He wound up studying toward his MDiv and a doctorate and his love of literature was woven into both his calling to ministry and his calling to be a father.
He seemed determined to introduce me to world literature at an early age, including ... an English translation of “Moominsummer Madness,” which he had bought when it was published in in 1954—and he was beginning to collect what he thought were children's books in preparation for my birth. I had never seen anything like these creatures, shown in black and white sketches sprinkled through in those storybooks—so I was very curious. And, at my request, my father sat down beside me, began reading to me and I was hooked. He went on to collect more of Jansson’s marvelous storybooks for me and my siblings. In fact, I was not even aware that Jansson also was responsible for a delightful comic strip until I was an adult journalist and had become part of national efforts to preserve classic comic strips. I now have inherited both of my father’s original Moomin editions and I have collected a lot of other Moomin memorabilia, including the reprinted comic strips.
Well, as a child, I also would have adored these picture-books! Unfortunately, they weren't available back then. In fact, the translator of Jansson's text for these picture-books wasn't even born herself until 1971! Apparently, editions of these books first appeared in 2003, although I wasn't aware of it at that time. I only discovered these two books while searching for some other Moomin classics just this year. I'm a big fan of other Drawn & Quarterly books, as well—and, somehow my paths through Amazon crossed to display these to me for the first time.
Of course, I immediately bought these two.
So what's in this 'Toffle' book?
When I was just starting kindergarten, I was shy myself. That was partly because as a pastor's kid, aka "PK," we moved in the middle of that year and I encountered some bullying, aimed at any newcomer like me and especially at PKs. Jansson's scruffy little Toffel is a black-and-white character and his sketch showed up so vividly in the storybooks my Dad read to us as children that I was fascinated by him. Why? Because he sparked my own budding sense of compassion. Whenever he popped up, I wondered: Shouldn't someone comfort this little fellow? Who should look out for the "outsiders" on the edges of our circles? Hmm, I thought. Perhaps we all should. That's roughly how my awareness of such compassion grew at that time. Toffle was part of that journey.
And that's essentially the plot of this picture book. Many of the other wildly inventive creatures in Jansson's world show up in these pages, because the well-established denizens of Moomin world are worried about their sad little neighbor. Toffle keeps moping around in isolation—until he finally discovers a smiling little burst of sun-lit hues called a "miffle." Against the odds, they form a caring relationship—Toffle and this miffle.
What I absolutely love about Jansson's world—and this is what instinctively hooked me in the first moment I saw her storybooks as a preschooler—is that Jansson completely redefines the notion of "diversity." In her world, there simply is no recognizable "normal." In Jansson's realm, a creature's size, shape, color and abilities defy the expectations of natural life in our world—and yet these strange creatures also exhibit such pure versions of human emotions and yearnings that we can't help but recognize something of ourselves in them.
As we explore Jansson's tales, we keep glimpsing ourselves in events that unfold—even as our creative expectations continue to expand at every turn.
As I have read Jansson's tales to preschoolers, the most common reaction to turning a page and seeing yet another new picture is: "Who is that?!!" And sometimes: "What is that!?!" That certainly is true of a kid's first glimpse of Toffle.
Of the various hardcover picture books available for kids, this (and the other one I will review today) are my absolute favorites for first-time gift giving to someone you would love to introduce to the Moomins' oh-so-strange-yet-oh-so-recognizable world.
July 27, 2020
Lyssnade på den som ljudbok med Tove Jansson som inläsare. Den är så vacker! ❤️ Nu ska vi alltid trösta varann och inte vara rädda mer!
January 31, 2021
During a pandemic where people are looking inward and finding the world can be a little bitter, I turn and find solace in Tove Jansson's world and work yet again.
The rhyming picturebook, beautifully translated by the poet Sophie Hannah, was first conceived and penned in the summer of 1959. Originally titled 'The Romantic Tale of the Lonely Toffle', it would see Jansson produce a story in which no Moomins are to be found although a familiar cast is evident. This time the story tells of lonely Toffle looking for someone to recognise him. In a world full of colour and life, Toffle feels isolated and alone. Won't anyone notice him?
Beautiful double-page spreads take us through Toffle's quest to find that someone special who will recognise him and draw him out of his shell. Whilst peering out to see, Toffle discovers a message in a bottle: it would seem though that this ideal partner first needs saving from the terrifying Groke. This is a story about a journey from out of a solitary darkness and into the light as much as it is about accepting who you are and learning how to express your feelings openly.
Toffle and Miffle are foils for both Tove and her partner, Tooti (Tootikki) whom she had met at a party in 1955. Although Jansson never saw herself as 'entirely lesbian', she would stay with Tooti throughout her life and I like to think that 'Toffle' is a touching ode to the times when Tove and Tooti were separated by work and the longing the artist had for her love.
Beautiful.
The rhyming picturebook, beautifully translated by the poet Sophie Hannah, was first conceived and penned in the summer of 1959. Originally titled 'The Romantic Tale of the Lonely Toffle', it would see Jansson produce a story in which no Moomins are to be found although a familiar cast is evident. This time the story tells of lonely Toffle looking for someone to recognise him. In a world full of colour and life, Toffle feels isolated and alone. Won't anyone notice him?
Beautiful double-page spreads take us through Toffle's quest to find that someone special who will recognise him and draw him out of his shell. Whilst peering out to see, Toffle discovers a message in a bottle: it would seem though that this ideal partner first needs saving from the terrifying Groke. This is a story about a journey from out of a solitary darkness and into the light as much as it is about accepting who you are and learning how to express your feelings openly.
Toffle and Miffle are foils for both Tove and her partner, Tooti (Tootikki) whom she had met at a party in 1955. Although Jansson never saw herself as 'entirely lesbian', she would stay with Tooti throughout her life and I like to think that 'Toffle' is a touching ode to the times when Tove and Tooti were separated by work and the longing the artist had for her love.
Beautiful.
October 4, 2016
I own the original English translation so I can't judge the newest version. But I adore my battered and beat up copy. This treasure was found on the bottom shelf of one of those used bookstores that appear when you need an hour digging through dusty shelves, and then vanish like Brigadoon. The rough condition just adds to poignancy of Toffle's journey. May you be delighted and comforted by discovering this wise and gently humorous picture book.
January 15, 2011
A wonderful, gentle, sad-sweet Moomin Valley story about depression and being lonely and finding friendship. Very much a delight...and a book that offers up kindness and hope. A small treasure for a grey winter's day...
November 9, 2012
This is just the sweetest book ever. A great way to be introduced into the world of the amazing Tove Jansson.
December 15, 2022
This book shows that even a scared, shy person can go an adventure. Sometimes children feel out of place in big groups even when they’re filled with friendly people. This book shows what happens when our character Toffle finds a friend who he can relate to even if it means facing all of his fears.
December 8, 2024
Bought a lovely copy of this because it was one of my favourite books as a kid. The art is still as wonderful as I remember, and it still makes me cry just a little bit.
I am a Moomin girlie forever and always.
I am a Moomin girlie forever and always.
September 19, 2016
SWEDISH REVIEW further down!
This was not just a book, this was an experience.
I marvel every time I read something by [author Tove Jansson | 45230], by how much I actually admire and love her writing. Her way of writing and describing, she paints feelings with words. I didn't even react to the fact that the whole book was in rhyme, for it seemed so natural in the story.
Should perhaps add that I never read this before, not now either. I listened to it (in Swedish):
http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/01...
To hear Tove herself tell the tale was even more magical than I would have thought. It became very sensitive, very close, and I was close to tears a couple of times. It is as minimalistic and simple, and yet it is something very deep in her stories and characters that always leave marks in me. They mean a lot to me, and so does this story. It made me feel all warm and calm, it made me smile and cry, it made me stop for a while and just listen, while drinking tea, with my eyes closed. There is no audiobook or music that got me to do something like that for years...
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Det här var inte bara en bok, det här var en upplevelse.
Jag förundras varje gång jag läser något av Tove Jansson hur mycket jag faktiskt beundrar och älskar hennes texter. Hennes sätt att skriva, beskriva, hon målar känslor med ord. Jag reagerade inte ens på att hela boken var på rim för det föreföll så naturligt i storyn.
Ska kanske tilläggas att jag aldrig läst den här innan, och inte nu heller. Jag lyssnade på den:
http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/01...
Att höra Tove själv berätta sagan var med magiskt än jag skulle kunnat tro. Det blev väldigt känsligt, väldigt nära, och jag var nära gråten ett par gånger. Det blir så avskalat och simpelt, och ändå är det något väldigt djupt i hennes berättelser och karaktärer som alltid lämnar spår i mig. De betyder mycket för mig, och så även den här berättelsen. Den gjorde mig alldeles varm och lugn, den fick mig att le och gråta, den fick mig att stanna upp för ett tag och bara lyssna, medan jag drack te med slutna ögon. Det är det ingen ljudbok eller musik som fått mig göra på flera år...
This was not just a book, this was an experience.
I marvel every time I read something by [author Tove Jansson | 45230], by how much I actually admire and love her writing. Her way of writing and describing, she paints feelings with words. I didn't even react to the fact that the whole book was in rhyme, for it seemed so natural in the story.
Should perhaps add that I never read this before, not now either. I listened to it (in Swedish):
http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/01...
To hear Tove herself tell the tale was even more magical than I would have thought. It became very sensitive, very close, and I was close to tears a couple of times. It is as minimalistic and simple, and yet it is something very deep in her stories and characters that always leave marks in me. They mean a lot to me, and so does this story. It made me feel all warm and calm, it made me smile and cry, it made me stop for a while and just listen, while drinking tea, with my eyes closed. There is no audiobook or music that got me to do something like that for years...
_____________________
Det här var inte bara en bok, det här var en upplevelse.
Jag förundras varje gång jag läser något av Tove Jansson hur mycket jag faktiskt beundrar och älskar hennes texter. Hennes sätt att skriva, beskriva, hon målar känslor med ord. Jag reagerade inte ens på att hela boken var på rim för det föreföll så naturligt i storyn.
Ska kanske tilläggas att jag aldrig läst den här innan, och inte nu heller. Jag lyssnade på den:
http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/01...
Att höra Tove själv berätta sagan var med magiskt än jag skulle kunnat tro. Det blev väldigt känsligt, väldigt nära, och jag var nära gråten ett par gånger. Det blir så avskalat och simpelt, och ändå är det något väldigt djupt i hennes berättelser och karaktärer som alltid lämnar spår i mig. De betyder mycket för mig, och så även den här berättelsen. Den gjorde mig alldeles varm och lugn, den fick mig att le och gråta, den fick mig att stanna upp för ett tag och bara lyssna, medan jag drack te med slutna ögon. Det är det ingen ljudbok eller musik som fått mig göra på flera år...
November 19, 2018
This is one of the best picture books ever written. The story is told in rhyme and because it is translated the poetry can be awkward at times and the translator is not quite up to the task.
The story is about Toffle who goes looking for someone to be comforted by and ends up finding a Mymble to be comforted by after many adventures.
The book has a large amount if text for a picture book. Its illustrations are complex and can occupy a child while the text is being read.
Tove Jansson was a genius and is superior to any other children's writer including Milne, Dahl, Carroll, White, Potter or anyone you can think of. She mostly worked in novels, but she also worked with both picture books and cartoons. Who Will Comfort Toffle is the best of her picture books.
There is in the picture book a subtle world view and philosophy. She sees the human condition as being one in which the point of a loving relationship is to find mutual support. Its an admirable take on love told with a subtle quiet emotional intensity. I think it can be faulted in that it is an ideal that is not really realizable that she is expounding. Jansson normally has a sense of the limits of what one can reasonably expect from humans and that is a part of her writing. It is not there in the ending. I generally think that children's literature should not present Utopian unrealizable ideals even though most people think that this is what children's literature should do. That view dates only from the Victorians and is naive about what children's literature is for.
Despite my criticism above, the book is very appropriate for young children. Jansson's works always operate on multiple levels. I read this book to my son starting when he was three and he turned out pretty well.
Every child should be given this book.
The story is about Toffle who goes looking for someone to be comforted by and ends up finding a Mymble to be comforted by after many adventures.
The book has a large amount if text for a picture book. Its illustrations are complex and can occupy a child while the text is being read.
Tove Jansson was a genius and is superior to any other children's writer including Milne, Dahl, Carroll, White, Potter or anyone you can think of. She mostly worked in novels, but she also worked with both picture books and cartoons. Who Will Comfort Toffle is the best of her picture books.
There is in the picture book a subtle world view and philosophy. She sees the human condition as being one in which the point of a loving relationship is to find mutual support. Its an admirable take on love told with a subtle quiet emotional intensity. I think it can be faulted in that it is an ideal that is not really realizable that she is expounding. Jansson normally has a sense of the limits of what one can reasonably expect from humans and that is a part of her writing. It is not there in the ending. I generally think that children's literature should not present Utopian unrealizable ideals even though most people think that this is what children's literature should do. That view dates only from the Victorians and is naive about what children's literature is for.
Despite my criticism above, the book is very appropriate for young children. Jansson's works always operate on multiple levels. I read this book to my son starting when he was three and he turned out pretty well.
Every child should be given this book.
December 5, 2021
Litt feigt å la denne telle som en bok i år, men jeg mener den fortjener det! Jeg har jo lest denne før, men bare som barn. Utrolig fin opplevelse å lese den igjen som "voksen". Jeg begynte nesten å gråte for hver side, både grunnet minnene som strømmer tilbake, men også fordi den er så nydelig skrevet. Tegningene er også helt fantastiske, jeg fikk lyst til å prøve å tegne slik selv. Liker også den halvveis diktstilen, den tar ikke over, men den gjør det likevel veldig behagelig å lese. Nydelig bok! (PS: Noe rart at noen av skapningene kalles homser, enten en noe rar oversettelse, eller noe rart at de ikke endret det. Jaja, kanskje de faktisk er homser.)
November 28, 2019
Nie dość, że Maciupek boi się otaczającego go świata, to na dodatek jest nieśmiały i samotny. Pewnego dnia postanawia wyruszyć w podróż. Po drodze widzi różne stworzonka, do których nie ma jednak odwagi zagadać. Czy z takim podejściem do życia uda mu się znaleźć jakiegoś przyjaciela?
Tove Jansson nie tylko pokazuje, w jaki sposób możemy pokonać własne lęki, ale także uczy, jak być dobrym ziomkiem. Z książki dowiemy się również, czym jest miłość i jakie niesie skutki.
Piękna opowieść dla młodszych i starszych.
"Co ci po muszli, mały przyjacielu, jeżeli nie masz komu jej pokazać?"
Tove Jansson nie tylko pokazuje, w jaki sposób możemy pokonać własne lęki, ale także uczy, jak być dobrym ziomkiem. Z książki dowiemy się również, czym jest miłość i jakie niesie skutki.
Piękna opowieść dla młodszych i starszych.
"Co ci po muszli, mały przyjacielu, jeżeli nie masz komu jej pokazać?"
December 14, 2016
A sweet little story.
Three stars might also be enough for this but I think it's deep and the message of trying to have courage is important. It's suitable for anyone from children to adults, which makes it a good book, in my opinion.
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Runomuodossa oleva tarina oli virkistävää vaihtelua romaaneille, joita yleensä luen. Olisihan tämänkin klassikon voinut aiemminkin lukea, mutta en ole tainnut siihen törmätä tarpeeksi usein kun se ei ole koskaan mukaani tarttunut.
Three stars might also be enough for this but I think it's deep and the message of trying to have courage is important. It's suitable for anyone from children to adults, which makes it a good book, in my opinion.
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Runomuodossa oleva tarina oli virkistävää vaihtelua romaaneille, joita yleensä luen. Olisihan tämänkin klassikon voinut aiemminkin lukea, mutta en ole tainnut siihen törmätä tarpeeksi usein kun se ei ole koskaan mukaani tarttunut.
August 27, 2013
This was one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES when I was a kid! Whenever I was sad or feeling down my mom would take me to the library and we would bring "Who will comfort Toffle?" home. My mom would read it aloud for me and I loved the drawings and all the funny characters. This is a wonderful book filled with dreams and it makes your imagination sprout!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
December 14, 2016
No jaa, kuka lohduttaisi minua kun kirja olikin niin lyhykäinen? Olihan tämä ihan mukava tarina, mutta kuitenkin, odotukseni siitä olivat erilaiset. En tiennyt sen olevan runokirja, en tiennyt tarinan olevan "rakkaustarina". Eihän nämä huonoja asioita olleet, mutta jotenkin silti petyin. Olisikohan pitänyt lukea kirja pienempänä lapsena?
July 2, 2022
Не маю жодного уявлення, як так сталось, що в моєму дитинстві не було Туве Янссон. Знала, що от є така знаменита письменниця з її обширним світом милих істот, але ніколи не читала. Нарешті хоч трішечки виправляю це неподобство.
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