Esimmäisen kerran ruotsiksi vuonna 1950 ilmestynyt The Memoirs of Moominpappa (suom. Muumipapan urotyöt) on tarina Muumipapan vaiherikkaista nuoruudenseikkailuista ennen Muumilaaksoon asettumista. Vuosikymmenten varrella kirja on ilmestynyt jo yli 50 eri kielellä. Sort Of Books on julkaissut kirjan hurmaavana erikoispainoksena alkuperäisasussaan.
“One cold and windy autumn evening many years ago a newspaper parcel was found on the doorstep of the Home for Moomin Foundlings. In that parcel I lay, quite small and shivering with cold.”
So begins Moominpappa’s remarkable Memoirs, written to delight his son Moomintroll and friends. What emerges
is a story about storytelling itself as one fabulous tale follows another, and not just about Moominpappa but Sniff and Snufkin’s fathers too – the rather muddled Muddler and the carefree Joxter. Add to this mix the genius inventor Hodgkins, and a grand finale in which Moominpappa rescues a shipwrecked Moominmamma from the waves, and the fun becomes irresistible.
