For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. If you were to drop by my apartment, you’d see a lot of Moomins. My girlfriend and I own all sorts of trinkets ...

The author’s longing for peace, solitude and creative safe spaces in real life heavily informed the creation of the Moomin universe To celebrate 80 years since the creation of the much-loved Moomins ...

Fans of the Moomins have reason to rejoice this summer, as the children’s book characters created by Finnish artist Tove Jansson will alight at the Brooklyn Public Library in “Tove Jansson and the ...

When Tove Jansson wrote her first Moomin story, Europe was at war, forcing millions of people to flee their homes, and the threatened atomic bomb was about to become reality. Feeling too desperate to ...

Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door is Always Open at Brooklyn Public Library includes two facade projections of Jansson (left) and Moomintroll (right). (photo by Charles Roussel, courtesy Moomin ...

Mads Mikkelsen, Max von Sydow and Helena Mattsson have joined the voice cast of Scandinavian 3D animation feature "Moomins and the Comet Chase." By Scott Roxborough, The Associated Press COLOGNE, ...

SEATTLE — The new exhibit at Ballard's National Nordic Museum features one of the Nordic region's most beloved cultural icons to the US — Moomins. "If you don't know the Moomins, they're kind of the ...

The demise of bookstores in the Amazon AMZN AMZN era is less about structural decline in the market and more about book store chains “simply not being good enough to survive”, according to Barnes & ...

Tove Jansson’s Finnish troll creations have beguiling adventures with a host of strange characters. But, at heart, their strength comes from being a loving family Thinking about all the “family” ...

Moomin World theme park in Finland features a human-size Moomin house and has a magical feel during the scenic winter. The Moomins, a captivating series of characters brewed up in the brilliant mind ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Scandinavian company Filmkompaniet just made it a little bit easier to introduce my children to a childhood ...