Comet in Moominland

Contributor(s): Jansson, Tove (Author)

ISBN: 9781770468085

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Hardcover

$24.95

Pub Date: August 26, 2025

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 07 to UP

Physical Info: 0.95" H x 8.53" L x 5.83" W ( 0.90 lbs) 184 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Moomin Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000136970 ( Comet in Moominland)

Reading level: 5.40

Interest level: MG

Point value: 5.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Moomintroll encounters a mouth-organist, a moth collector, and a lovely maiden, and discovers the danger of a threatening comet when he takes a journey to seek advice from the Professor.

Review Quotes: "An astonishingly daring story: the only time I have felt a similar terror was watching Lars von Trier's Melancholia." --New York Review of Books, Frances Wilson

"The Moomins are not so much cute as strangely familiar." --Sheila Heti, The New Yorker

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