Tales from Moominvalley

Tales from Moominvalley is the seventh book in the Moomins series by Finnish author Tove Jansson. Unlike all the other books, which are novels, it is a collection of short stories, the longest book in the series. It was first published in 1962. The book forms the basis of episodes 9, 10, 13, 24, and 36 of the 1990 TV series.
The book contains nine stories:

The Spring Tune
A Tale of Horror
The Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters
The Last Dragon in the World
The Hemulen Who Loved Silence
The Invisible Child
The Secret of the Hattifatteners
Cedric
The Fir Tree

Reception

Kirkus Reviews compared Moominvalley to the writing of Lewis Carroll, highlighting how Jansson "takes up into a fantasia world with near-real inhabitants". In addition to describing the joys of the written text, Kirkus Reviews noted that the book's "creatures are given additional substance by the illustrations".

Adaptation

Along with other Moomins books, the stories and characters from Tales from Moominvalley were adapted into a Dutch-Japanese-Finnish anime television series produced by Telecable Benelux B.V. and animated by Telescreen Japan in the 1990s.