Moomins

Moomin (Swedish: Mumin, Finnish: Muumi, English: Moomin) is a general term for a series of novels and picture books called the "Moomin series" by the Swedish-Finnish female author Tove Jansson, as well as the "Moomin comic strips" she drew with her youngest brother Lars Jansson, or a general term for those works and secondary works based on them. It is also the name of a fictional species appearing in the work, and is also an abbreviation or nickname for "Moomintroll," the name of the protagonis

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