Handwritten notes about characters’ traits and voices to be published in 80th-anniversary edition of The Moomins and the Great Flood
As a cult series of 20th-century children’s books, the Moomins have sold up to 30m copies worldwide. Now, extensive humorous notes that their Finnish creator,, wrote on each of her lovable trolls with hippopotamus snouts are to be published for the first time, 25 years after her death.
Jansson’s unpublished notes are thought to have been created to guide directors because the descriptions extend to the voices of each character. Zambra said: “It’s fascinating to get her own take on them. There are lots of very interesting things that I didn’t know before.” Jansson imagined the character’s voice as “happily hoarse but never shrill … with a sudden almost brutal laugh”.
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