5/24/2023 0 Comments Moomin the fir tree![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() But who or what is Christmas, and why does everyone seem so flustered? 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. 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? it Christmas - An Ethnological Analysis of Alienation in Tove Janssons Short Story The Fir Tree. 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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