Back in May the team behind Something Good threw a birthday party for the Moomins. Created by Finish artist Tove Jansson, these whimsical, hippo-like creatures have now been delighting children and adults alike for 80 years. And in this time of profound global refugee crisis, they feel like appropriate – if unexpected – heroes for the modern age.
Jansson wrote the very first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during the second world war. The story tells how the Moomin family have been displaced and separated by natural disaster. Moomintroll and his mother must traverse unfamiliar lands and encounter strange creatures as they search to find their lost Moominpappa.
