In this video, you can enjoy and listen to Tove Jansson’s niece Sophia Jansson reading The Fir Tree in English, complete with Tove’s original illustrations. They prefer to spend their winters tucked behind an old boiler, or huddled together in their drawing room.
Tove Jansson’s The Fir Tree is a funny, satirical and warm story – perfect for setting the Christmas mood and for contemplating its true meaning. The Fir Tree by Tove Jansson The Moomins aren’t a naturally Christmassy species. But who or what is Christmas, and why does everyone seem so flustered? it Christmas - An Ethnological Analysis of Alienation in Tove Janssons Short Story The Fir Tree. In the short story The Fir Tree from Tales from Moominvalley, the Moomins are suddenly woken up from winter hibernation by stressed neighbours, trying to get ready for Christmas. ‘Mamma, wake up,’ Moomintroll said anxiously. Featuring the much loved stories in Waterstones Oxfam bestseller,The Invisible ChildandThe Fir Tree - the Moomins gloriously funny and generous take on. But now this heart-warming story is available also for the English audience! Maybe getting into the holiday mood with the Moomins, experiencing Christmas for the first time, will become a much-cherished tradition for you as well? Every year on Christmas Eve in the Moomin creator’s home country, Finns can listen to Tove Jansson herself reading this much-loved story on national radio in her mother tongue, Swedish.
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