Sort Of Books Moominpappa at Sea

Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson was released originally in Swedish in 1965. The book leads the reader with the Moomin family to a distant lighthouse island, which turns out to be a strangely unpredictable place. So far, the book has been released in over 50 languages. This Special Collectors’ Edition by Sort Of Books has been restored to its original design.

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?