Description from Goodreads
The Moomins set sail for a wild new adventure.The Moomins, in case you didn’t know, are kind, philosophical creatures with velvety fur and smooth round snouts, who live in a tall blue house in a beautiful woodland valley beside the sea.
Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and lighthouse where he’ll feel alert and important again. And so the Moomins set sail for a new home. In Moominpappa at Sea they arrive at an island that proves as mysterious and wild as even Moominpappa had hoped. It even has a deserted lighthouse. But how is Moominmamma to grow her flowers and what strange fate befell the last keeper of the lighthouse?
My Thoughts on the Book
What's not to love about the Moomin family? I might be slightly biased, as I grew up in the 90's watching the Moomin cartoons on TV (for nostalgia seekers, the official Moomin YouTube channel has uploaded the episodes).
Nostalgia aside, there's something philosophical and melancolic, yet heartwarming at the same time. Tove Jansson's prose sucks you in, and the slight disgressions into philosophical thoughts here and there makes it so much fun. Of course, there's also something so much fun and charming about the characters, whether it's Moominpappa, Little My, or any of the other ones, and the dynamics between them.
It's most certainly a book that has a lovely mix of ingredients: pipe smoking, sailing, the sea, whisky, and existential crisis. It's a book even us adults can enjoy and that's a sign of a well-written children's book (that adults can appreciate it too).
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