Tales from Moominvalley
core collection 1962 The Moomins
Record
| Original title | Det osynliga barnet |
|---|---|
| First published | 1962 |
| Original language |  SV |
| First English translation | 1963 |
| Translator | Thomas Warburton |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.30 (11,903 ratings, collected 2026-10-06) |
| Page count | 175 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312625429 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
Nine short stories set in and around Moominvalley, among the most loved of all Jansson's writing. In The Spring Tune, Snufkin is pestered by a creep who wants a name; in A Tale of Horror, a small whomper's lies catch up with him; The Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters waits for the storm that will finally free her; The Last Dragon in the World is tiny and loves Snufkin, not the Moomintroll who found it; The Hemulen Who Loved Silence is given a derelict park; in The Invisible Child, Ninny, made invisible by an aunt's coldness, is slowly restored by Moominmamma's kindness until, at last, she is seen; The Secret of the Hattifatteners follows Moominpappa off to sea with the silent wanderers; Cedric is a dog with topaz eyes given away and regretted; and The Fir Tree finds the Moomins woken into their first Christmas.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Moomins
- Series: The Moomins core; position 7 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tove Jansson
Notes
- From the series record (The Moomins): Tove Jansson's nine Moomin books (1945-1970), written in Swedish in Finland and illustrated by the author: the Moomin family of Moominvalley and their friends, from the comet, the Hobgoblin's hat and the flooded theatre of the early comedies to the winter, the sea and the empty house of the darker late novels.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Moomins: position 7 of 9: previous Moominland Midwinter (1957) · next Moominpappa at Sea (1965)
Sources
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