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The Moomins and the Great Flood

Tove Jansson

First published 2005
Publisher Holger Schildt
Format Hardcover
Type Chapbook
Cover art Tove Jansson
Pages 52
ISBN 9515015502

    Sources: "Look Inside!" two 2012 eds. at Amazon UK 2017-03-26 (selections may be unstable); Wikipedia; WorldCat library records
  • Originally published in Swedish as SmĂĄtrollen och den stora översvämningen (Helsinki, FI: Holger Schildt, 1945). Except the preface and perhaps its illustration, new in the 1991 facsimile ed. --stated in the 2012 Kindle ed. and presumably in the 2012 hardcover, p[9]
  • {{Tr|David McDuff}}. The 2005 first ed. was the first English-language publication of the story. The 2012 hardcover was the first publication in the UK (per Note apparently from the publisher). It states "(c) David McDuff 2012" (as well as Jansson 1945, 1991).

First English translation. Limited edition. Translated by David McDuff. Data from Swedish-, Danish- and English-language WorldCat libraries. {{OCLC|76859232}}, {{OCLC|937303636}}, {{OCLC|475445120}} --plus one for the Swedish-language ed. also published 2005 in Finland, {{OCLC|750766630}} with different page-count-- show various short forms of the publisher name (Holger)(H.) Schildt(s)

Publ date and cover image from Amazon UK 2017-03-26, as "Schildts & Söderströms (1 Aug. 2005)". Schildts & Söderströms succeeded Schildts Förlags Ab by 2012 merger, per Swedish and Finnish Wikipedia; the latter dates Holger Schildts förlagsaktiebolag 1913–2012. English Wikipedia shows stated 1st ed. cover image with the same illustration and design, Swedish-language title. --Wikipedia visits 2017-03-26

Page Title Author(s) Type
The Moomins and the Great Flood Tove Jansson Short Fiction

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Moomins and the Great Flood Cover 2012 Sort of Books Hardcover Chapbook Tove Jansson 60
The Moomins and the Great Flood Cover 2012 Sort of Books eBook Chapbook Tove Jansson
The Moomins and the Great Flood Cover 2018 Drawn and Quarterly Hardcover Chapbook Tove Jansson 64