The Moomins and thb Great Flood

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第二次世界大戦直後に出版され、長らく絶版だったタイトルです。ムーミンシリーズ第1作になります。
『小さなトロールと大きな洪水』は、ムーミントロールとムーミンママは新しい家を探し求めていて、行方不明になっている一家の父親、ムーミンパパを捜し物語です。

ムーミンシリーズの8作が完結した21年めの1991年に、ようやく本として出版されました。トーベ・ヤンソンのムーミンの挿し絵もどこか、ほかの本とはちがっています。

The Moomins and the Great Flood
Contributor(s): Jansson, Tove (Author)
EAN: 9781770463288
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: August 14, 2018
Target Age Group: 06 and UP
Physical Info: 1.02 cms H x 21.59 cms L x 14.99 cms W (0.23 kgs) 64 pages

Publisher Marketing:
Join the Moomins in their very first adventure, crossing a huge flood to search for missing Moominpappa!
Moominmamma and Moomintroll need to find a home for the winter, someplace where sun is plentiful and safe from the dangers of the unknown. But before they can settle down, they must cross a dark and sinister forest and find their way through a flood of epic proportions, all the while hoping that they will find Moominpappa again. Their journey seems daunting but they forge ahead, with Moominmamma's kindness and patience giving Moomin the courage he needs to face the strange, unexplored path that lies ahead of them.
Written during the 1939-40 Finnish-Soviet Union conflict, or The Winter War, Jansson uses the unusual setting of a natural catastrophe to provide the background of her first children's book and the first appearance of her beloved Moomin characters. She wrote this as her escape from the horrors of war and its many consequences, but rather than avoiding the problems that war raises, she uses these as a basis for the many obstacles that the characters face, from separated families to forced displacement. With beautiful black and white artwork interspersed throughout the text and curious, playful prose, you find yourself rooting for the Moomins and their quest to find Moominpappa and a place to call home.