The Moomins and the Great Flood good reception from the Guardian. The Moomins and the Great Flood The Moomins and the Great Flood (Swedish: "Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen", literally "The Little Trolls and the Great Flood") is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1945, during the end of World War II. It was the first book to star the Moomins, but is often seen as a prelude to the main Moomin books, as most of the main characters are introduced in the next book. Moominmamma and Moomintroll are travelling through a dark and scary forest looking for Moominpappa, who has gone off
The Finnish dormitory in Taichung is not possible to say how long the instruction in Swedish lasted. Other subjects taught at the dormitory included geography, Finnish nature and Finnish civics. The textbooks included e.g. books by Lappalainen called "Perusmaantieto" (‘The Basics of Geography’) and Lappalainen et al., "Kansalaistaito ja ympäristöoppi 3–4". (‘Civics and environmental awareness 3–4’). In 1973 the Finnish Missions Council, to which The Finnish Missionary Society also belongs, wrote an initiative to the Finnish Ministry of Education, asking that the Government of Finland give financial support to the Finnish children whose parents were abroad in missionary work and who were of the age