This week I turn to books newly read and discussed, revisit earlier posts worth rediscovering, note a handful of timely observances (including the closing few days of Tove & Moomin Month, Literacy and Numeracy Week and Frankenstein Day) and draw attention to a scattering of intriguing features from across the Internet.
After a six-year hiatus, I return with my sporadic post covering all manner of things I’ve recently read, watched and done with my days. However, this time it is less an inflexible, orderly list than a selection of variegated observations. For now, at least.
My first Janssonian contribution to the Tove Trove Library is the fifth book in the Moomin series, first published in 1954.
The World of Moominvalley is simply the ultimate guide for any Moomin fan, old or new.
I share my thoughts on one of the most adored children’s novels of all time.
Reading the original, magical story after thirty years before sampling a collectors edition with a brand new cover from Quentin Blake.
Taken from the East European oral tradition, these stories were originally collated and published in Germany by the Brothers Grimm.