Sola e annoiata in un caldo giorno d’estate, Susanna sogna di vivere pericoli e avventure, quando si ritrova in mano un paio di occhiali e se li mette. Di colpo è catapultata in un viaggio attraverso una foresta di mangrovie, un vulcano in eruzione, una tempesta di ghiaccio… Ma nella fuga a lei si uniscono nuovi amici, mentre alla paura subentra il gusto della scoperta, della libertà, della condivisione. E se il mondo intorno a lei è diventato una minaccia, c’è una valle magnifica, popolata da una comunità variopinta e curiosa, che accoglie con gioia ogni nuovo arrivato. Esce per la prima volta in Italia un gioiello artistico e letterario del 1977. L’ultimo albo illustrato di Tove Jansson sulla magica Valle dei Mumin.
Author
Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish. Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance. Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books. Jansson's Moomin books have been translated into 33 languages.
