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  • Moominpappa at Sea

  • By: Tove Jansson
  • Narrated by: Hugh Dennis
  • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Moominpappa at Sea

By: Tove Jansson
Narrated by: Hugh Dennis
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Publisher's Summary

If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tove Jansson's endearing classic, Moominpappa at Sea, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. A Moomintroll is small and shy and fat, and has a Moominpappa and a Moominmamma. Moomins live in the forests of Finland. One day Moominpappa is feeling at a loss. He has no idea what to do with himself because it seems everything has already been done. So he takes his family off to start a new life in a lighthouse on a tiny, rocky island far out to sea. It's rather quiet and lonely at first, but as they begin to explore their unusual surroundings the Moomins discover some funny and surprising new things about themselves.

©1974 Tove Jansson (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"They seem to grow in wisdom and delight every time I read them." (Philip Pullman)
“Tove Jansson is undoubtedly one of the greatest children’s writers there has ever been. She has the extraordinary gift of writing books that are very clearly for children, but can also be enjoyed when the child, like me, is over sixty and can still find new pleasures with the insights that come from adulthood.” (Sir Terry Pratchett)
“A lost treasure now rediscovered . . . A surrealist masterpiece.” (Neil Gaiman)

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