MOOMIN

The Moomins are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, picture books, and a comic strip by the Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Finnish publisher Schildts. They mom- are a family of white, round fairy-tale characters with large snouts that make them resemble the use-hippopotamus. However, despite this resemblance, the Moomin family are trolls who live in a house in Moominvalley.