Tales from Moominvalley

　　姆米谷除了住著姆米一家之外，還有許多各具特色的朋友！

　　爸爸媽媽都不相信小霍姆伯幻想出來的邪惡猛獸，他決定離家出走！沒想到，卻在老舊的大房子裡遇到真正恐怖的怪物……

　　菲力強克夫人害怕大災難到來，每天都憂心的待在家裡。直到有一天，暴風雨真的來襲了！她終於等到世界末日的來臨……

　　姆米托魯撿到了世界上最後一隻龍，開心的帶回家照顧。他細心的疼愛並呵護小龍，小龍卻偏偏喜歡跟在司那夫金後頭，討厭姆米托魯……

　　一個透明孩子造訪了姆米家，她因為太沒自信而不想讓其他人看見自己。姆米媽媽該如何幫助透明女孩，讓她重新出現在大家面前呢？

　　九篇發生在姆米谷的小故事充滿了奇異幻想，又隱隱帶著人性真實，共同譜寫出歡樂且深具意義的姆米童話。

本書特色
◆ 全球風靡：改編歌劇、電視動畫、漫畫、郵票、周邊商品無數。自一九六四年翻譯為日文，深受日本人喜愛，相繼推出兩部長篇動畫，在一百多個國家播出，成為全世界共同的童話故事

◆ 經典收藏：美術館展覽、主題咖啡館陸續成立，芬蘭發行姆米與朵貝‧楊笙紀念硬幣

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　　小說名家菲力普．普曼、尼爾．蓋曼、華爾街日報、娛樂週刊、學校圖書館月刊、The Horn Book、華盛頓時報書評盛讚推崇

各界讚譽
★ 朵貝．楊笙是天才。──菲力普．普曼

★ 如果你會在地鐵上閱讀《哈利波特》的話，讀朵貝楊笙機智且具想像力的芬蘭插畫作品，更是毋需隱藏。──Daily Candy

★ 姆米系列創造了溫暖的床邊共讀時光，也能讓人獨自沉醉其中。──《華爾街日報》

★「楊笙的著作具備最佳兒童文學的溫暖、奇幻以及異想天開的特質。」──《紐約報》（NY Press）

★ 楊笙一邊傳遞快樂操之在己的訊息，一邊透過描繪人類的小缺點製造溫潤的樂趣。青少年將被印製在黃色頁面上，簡單卻令人印象深刻的黑白圖書所吸引，並且從中認知到：閃耀動人之物僅供觀賞，而某些夢想之美在於從未被實現。──《學校圖書館期刊》（School Library Journal）

★ 重現的失落珍寶，最可愛、奇異的作品之一。坦白說，這是一部超現實巨著。──尼爾．蓋曼（《美國眾神》作者）
 
　　——中文書介取自《姆米谷的小寓言》，小麥田

Soon to be MOOMINVALLEY, a MAJOR ANIMATED SERIES on SKY ONE starring Taron Egerton and Rosamund Pike!

　　If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws, would you know what to do with it? Moomintroll thinks he does, but when he takes his new-found pet home, things don't quite work out as planned. And suppose Too-ticky brought you an invisible child, would you know how to make her visible again?

　　Meet new and delightful characters and re-encounter old friends, such as Snufkin and Little My in this entertaining collection of nine stories about the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of Moominvalley. There are some new characters to meet, such as the Fillyjonk and the Hattifatteners, as well as old friends, namely Snufkin and Little My - and not to mention dear Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll of course!

Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and went on to write and illustrate many books for adults and children. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s, just for fun, and in 1945 he became a character in a children's story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books, which began with The Moomins and the Great Flood in 1945, closely followed by Comet in Moominland in 1946, Finn Family Moomintroll in 1948 and six more Moomin adventures. During the winter months Tove lived and worked in Helsinki, but in the summertime she stayed on a beautiful remote island in the Gulf of Finland with her long-term partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä. Tove Jansson received many prestigious awards during her lifetime, including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001, aged eighty-six.