TAMPERE, Finland (AP) — The Moomins, Finland’s most lovable literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this ...

Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll – live in Moominvalley, where they welcome all friends, visitors and vagrants for adventures and sweet treats.

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

Fans flocked to Tampere in southern Finland to celebrate the country’s most lovable literary cartoon family, created by ...

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

Moomins and the Great Flood, which was published in 1945, sees Moomintroll and his mother searching for Moominpappa, who was washed away in a storm along with their house. Their quest takes them ...

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

As The Moomins makes its U.S. debut, Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. says the demise of bookstores in the Amazon era is less about structural decline in the market and more about book store chains ...

The Moomins were and remain a hit in Finland and abroad—there exist Moomin movies, Moomin theme parks, Moomin crockery, you name it. (Jansson put her foot down at sanitary towels and Disney.) ...

The Moomins hit the big screen this week, and their journey from comic strips to cinemas is the opposite of a Disney-fied fairytale, as Boyd Tonkin discovers Boyd Tonkin ...

“The Moomins were originally a bit innocent,” said Thomas Wallgren, a philosopher who is also an elected representative on Helsinki City Council, and who has been active in the campaign ...

The Moomins have developed away from the troll concept and look like hippos, but they have nothing in common with them, besides a big nose. It is impossible to pin down,’ she says.