This starting point isn't dissimilar to 'The Secret of the Hattinfatteners' from 'Tales from Moominvalley', where Moominpappa experiences a sudden powerful unhappiness with his home-life and feels compelled to escape. In the beginning of the book, Moominpappa tries, as if by understanding, to control the pompous sea and perhaps even himself: “You see, my idea is to discover what secret rules the sea obeys.

There have been in picture books and in the graphic novel occasional works of genius where the producer of the text and the producer of the art being the same person fuse the art and the text into a seamless work of genius. While there is no war and almost no violence in them I think that they are a sort of antidote to the inhumanity of that conflict.As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves. My, on the other hand, is just as we need her to be; irrepressible and just a little bit wicked, often adding a touch of humor just when things get dark. I understand Tove Jansson's headspace wasn't in the same headspace as when she wrote the earlier books, too, and can appreciate that.

I'm in my fifth decade and this is my second reading, for me this time, not to my (now adult) children.In my opinion, Tove Jannson is the best children's author who ever lived and one of the ten greatest authors of the twentieth century. I've read all Moomin books multiple times but Moominpappa at Sea remains my personal favourite and I can't even begin to tell you how happy I was to finally get my own copy which I was desperately trying to get hold of for years. Stajemy się wszyscy zanadto do siebie przyzwyczajeni i wszystko jest wciąż takie samo, prawda, kochanie? Moominpappa tried to lose his fear and tried to make a home, tried to know how and why, tried to accept the nature of the sea.

It's rather lonely at first, but it isn't long before the Moomins discover some funny and surprising new things about themselves. It is also implied (I think, anyway) that Moominmamma is either currently suffering from a reasonably serious illness or is in recovery from one, as nobody will let her do anything or exert herself in any way.Moominpappa at Sea (Swedish: Pappan och havet Literally: "The Father and the Sea") is the tenth in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomin books and the eight novel, published in 1965. However, the Groke, a cold dark figure that longs for light and kills the grass (and any plant) that she sits on, freezes the water all around her and floats after them. To jest wielka sztuka pisać tak jak robi to Tove, pod pozorem niezobowiązującej opowiastki dla młodszych opowiedzieć o tak wielu ludzkich stanach, emocjach i wrażeniach. The book follows the titular Moomin family as they arrive on a deserted island in the middle of the sea, documenting their experiences as they become familiar with their newfound surroundings.

Little My solves the problem by exterminating the ants with petroleum, much to Moomintroll's dismay.

Maybe it was just the way I was reading it but it almost felt like it was veering into gothic horror territory at times, with the Groke stalking Moomintroll, the island seeming to come alive around the family and the weather seemingly consciously acting against them. This title is where the Moomin books do start to take a dark turn, I guess beginning Moominland Midwinter, but if book series are supposed to grow with its readership, (Comet in Moominland was published in the mid 1940s, this one in 1965) then this series has. The power of the autumn sea protects the island’s fishermen from other disturbances while also offering an opportunity for escapism: “It was so marvellous not to have to care about a blessed thing. Moominpappa at Sea is also probably the only children's book you'll ever read that centers on a midlife crisis. The island is no tropical paradise--it actually sounds quite imposing, looming over the Moomins at first sight like a giant shadow--but holds mysteries aplenty for the whole family: Moominpappa and Moominmamma; Moomintroll and Little My.