Ordet är en värdefull gåva. Det bygger broar mellan människor och fungerar som sällskap i ensamma stunder. Tove Jansson hade ordets gåva, hon skrev minst lika skickligt som hon ritade. Jansson är världskänd som mumintrollens skapare, men det alla inte vet är att hennes karriär som författare var lika mångsidig och djup som karriären som bildkonstnär var. Ordets gåva samlar roliga, vassa, vemodiga och humoristiska citat ur hela Tove Janssons litterära produktion. Den här boken passar i alla sammanhang; att ha framme på soffbordet, som gå-bort-present eller som gåva till bröllopsparet, jubilaren eller studenten. Boken är stilenligt illustrerad med teckningar ur böckerna och seriealbumen om muminfamiljen.
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.
