Tove Jansson periodicals and daily papers. During this period, Jansson also designed many book covers, adverts and postcards. Following her mother's example, she drew illustrations for "Garm", an anti-fascist Finnish-Swedish satirical magazine. She was briefly engaged in the 1940s to Atos Wirtanen. During her later studies, Jansson met her future partner Tuulikki Pietilä. The two women collaborated on many works and projects, including a model of the Moominhouse, in collaboration with Pentti Eistola. This is now exhibited at the Moomin museum in Tampere. Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, "The Moomins and the Great Flood", in 1945, during World War
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