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Urm so honestly I feel like it's not really fair on how I'm rating it because I'm not really familiar with the moomin characters buy I honestly felt that this book was very confusing and I didn't really know what was happening due to the amount of characters that was here and after a while it was a bit hard to keep track. As well as I wished they let us know like why the muddle and the joxter and hodkins and their wives just left their kids with moominpappa? Like um... as well as like why did moominpappa not tell their lids that they had mothers? Are we just going to look part that casually? Anyways other than that, I think the book was lovely and I'm quite interested in going down the moomin rabbit hole but maybe not yet as despite how short the book was it felt really really long and that I just spent an entire year with the moomins.

radikaliseradgroda's review against another edition

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5.0

A few days ago when I first went looking for children's audiobooks, I was just hoping to have someone speak gently and simply to me in this time of great distress. Something familliar, calming, and easy to deal with. Now, if you ask me, Mark Levengood is one of the most soothing narrators in the world, and I've always loved the Moomins, so finding out that he'd narrated 17 different Moomin books was wonderful. What I didn't expect was being swept along for riveting adventures far beyond Moomin Valley, meeting an almost entirely new cast of characters (The Hemul's Aunt alone is worth the read), and realising I only know a fraction of the Moomin lore. These books have all the wonder and delight a children's book, while also having more emotional depth than most books aimed at adults. I can't believe I haven't read them before.

slothburglar's review

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

There's something very amusing about this book being from Moominpapa's POV since he things so very highly of himself. The story was cute, but the characters are always more the star of the show in these works. I loved the ghost and even grew endeared to the Muddler. The ending was very hopeful and left me in a pleasant mood. This whole book left me in a pleasant mood every time I read it, it's very good for you to find books like it overall.

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adventurous funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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