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"Who Will Comfort Toffle?: A Tale of Moomin Valley" by Tove Jansson is a delicate exploration of loneliness, fear, and the yearning for connection. In this s...
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Who Will Comfort Toffle? is one of Tove Jansson’s most popular books. This touching story about loneliness, friendship, and courage comes alive in animations narrated by Tove Jansson’s niece, Sophia Jansson. The mini-documentary also features interviews by Sophie Hannah, bestselling author and poet who has translated the book into English ...
Published in English. 1960. Preceded by. The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My. Children's literature portal. Who Will Comfort Toffle? is the second picture book in the Moomin series by Tove Jansson. It was first published in 1960. It was first translated into English by Kingsley Hart.
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- 1960
Toffle. Toffle is an easily frightened character who is scared of many things, until he finds someone who is even more frightened than himself. He lives in the Moominvalley but he is very lonely, so one day he embarks on an adventure to find a friend. He meets many creatures along the way but no one speaks to him. He stumbles upon a bottle with ...
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Who Will Comfort Toffle? (Swedish: Vem ska trösta Knyttet?) is the eight in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomin books and the second picture book, published in 1960. It was first translated into English by Kingsley Hart. The story follows the lonely and frightened Toffle, who is searching for friends, but too shy to talk to anyone.
This was the first Moomin book not to feature the Moomin family. However, other familiar faces like the Mymble, Little My, Snufkin, Too-ticky, Salome and the Groke appear alongside staple Moomin races like hemulens, fillyjonks and whompers.
Toffle lives alone in a small house where he is constantly frightened by giant hemulens walking outside. One night he's had enough and abandons his home at dawn to live somewhere else, during the day he sees lots of people going by, but he's to scared to talk to anyone.
At night Toffle comes across a party in the woods, but stays outside of it. Instead he goes to the beach where he finds a beautiful seashell that he makes his new home. In the ocean Toffle finds a message in a bottle from Miffle, who writes about how scared she is of the Groke.
Suddenly, Toffle grows confident and determined to find and comfort Miffle. He makes a makeshift boat of his bag and travels the oceans, with his newfound courage he's able to talk to and befriend people, he's even able to speak to the enormous Booble.
At the other side of a dark forest Toffle finds and confronts the Groke. He bites her tail, which makes her so surprised she runs off screaming. Finally Toffle has a chance to comfort Miffle, but once again finds himself too shy to speak. Instead he writes a letter explaining his feelings.
An audiobook version of the story was released as an LP album in 1978 by the Swedish acid/psych progg duo of Peter Lundblad and Torbjörn Eklund.
An animated film by Johan Hagelbäck was made of the book in 1980. The story was also featured in the Swedish 1990 television show and has since been adapted into children's plays.
Toffle is an easily frightened character who is scared of many things until he finds someone who is even more frightened than himself. He lives in the Moominvalley but he is very lonely, so one day he embarks on an adventure to find a friend. He meets many creatures along the way but no one speaks to him. He stumbles upon a bottle with a message from another lonely girl, Miffle, and he goes ...
A SCANDINAVIAN MIDCENTURY CLASSIC BACK IN PRINT Who Will Comfort Toffle? is the timeless, magical tale of the wistful wallflower, Toffle-too shy to speak to anyone and too fearful of the world he is watching from afar. Lonely and sad, Toffle runs away from home and watches the magical cast of Moomin Valley-Mymble, My, Snufkin, the merry whompses and the Fillyjonk-celebrate and enjoy life.
