From early morning, long queues formed across the country as fans scrambled to get their hands on the exclusive anniversary ...

The Moomins, Finland's most lovable literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this year. The chubby, white ...

Eight decades after their debut, the Moomins remain Finland’s most treasured literary export. Fans flocked to the official ...

The Moomins and the Great Flood, by the Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson, was published in 1945. The first Moomin book ...

Tove Jansson created the Moomins as an escape from the darkness of World War II. 80 years later, do we need them more than ...

The situations of the Moomin characters reflected Jansson’s reality, her niece said. That was true from the first book, in which Moomintroll and his mother go in search of Moominpapa, who is lost.

On Saturday, fans flocked to Tampere in southern Finland — home of the Moomin Museum — to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 publication as well as Jansson's Aug. 9, 1914, birthday.

Moomin: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition is published by Drawn & Quarterly, available now, and runs to 448 pages at 8.5 x 12.2 inches in size and $69.95 at full price.

On Saturday, fans flocked to Tampere in southern Finland — home of the Moomin Museum — to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 publication as well as Jansson’s Aug. 9, 1914, birthday.

On Saturday, fans flocked to Tampere in southern Finland — home of the Moomin Museum — to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 publication as well as Jansson's Aug. 9, 1914, birthday.

Performers dressed up as characters from the Moomin book series pose at Moominworld, a theme park in Naantali, Finland. Besides saunas and Nokia phones, the Moomin universe may be Finland's most ...