Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson. Pappan och Havet (‘The Father and the Sea’, 1965) translated by Kingsley Hart (1966). Muminsaga No 8. Puffin Books, 2019. It’s August in the corner of the world where the Moomin family lives, and Moominpappa is restless – it’s hot, he’s worried about forest fires, and anxious about any … Continue reading Untethered: #ToveTrove #Moomin80| Calmgrove Books
I am David by Anne Holm. David (1963) translated from the Danish by L W Kingsland. Mammoth / Egmont Children’s Books, 2000 (1965). When, in 1963, Anne Holm’s children’s novel first came out in Denmark it was just after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the closest the world came to all-out nuclear war. But even … Continue reading An unexpected lifeline: #NordicFINDS| Calmgrove Books