Tove Jansson Family Moomintroll". In addition to the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and popular picture books: "The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My" (1952), "Who will Comfort Toffle?" (1960), "The Dangerous Journey" (1977) and "An Unwanted Guest" (1980). As the Moomins' fame grew, two of the original novels, "Comet in Moominland" and "The Exploits of Moominpappa", were revised by Jansson and republished. After "Moominvalley in November" Tove Jansson stopped writing about Moomins and started writing for adults. "The Summer Book" is the best known of her adult fiction translated into English. It
Swedish-speaking population of Finland and Finnish-speakers are nowadays very common. According to a study commissioned by the Swedish Assembly of Finland in 2005, 48.5% of all families with children where at least one of the parents was Swedish-speaking were bilingual in the sense of one parent being Swedish- and the other Finnish-speaking (only families living in those municipalities where Swedish was at least a co-official language were included in this study). 67.7% of the children from these bilingual families were registered as Swedish-speaking. The proportion of those who attended schools where Swedish was the language of instruction was even higher. The Finnish authorities classify