Summer reading can mean anything you want it to – from a crime or romance novel to a fat classic you didn’t have time for during the year. What will you read?
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The show manages to be positive and heartwarming, championing kindness and generosity without being schmaltzy or saccharine.
The Moomins inspire great affection in their relish of life, wanderlust, kind natures and their inclusive community spirit.
Tove Jansson’s gentle Moomin creatures reflect something ancient and ever-changing: a mythic rhythm of wandering, belonging and becoming.
The inventor of the lovable but imperfect Moomins created the characters and their world as a way of bringing light after the dark days of the second world war.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood.
In the game, power is found in a natural world that is not tampered with or controlled – just as in Jansson’s stories.
Now is the perfect time to read Jansson’s novel – a book that will make you nostalgic for childhood summers.
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ECDS Postdoctoral Fellow in European Languages, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Children's Literature & Childhood Culture, Queen Mary University of London
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Forrest Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, English & Literary Studies, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Honorary Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, Programme Lead for English Literature and English Literature with Drama Studies, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer, Department of English Literature, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Literature, Media, and Creative Writing, Leeds Beckett University
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland