Customer Reviews
wonderful - By: Mrs. B. Handford, 06 Dec 2008 
Not wanting to repeat other reviews of this book...
It's wonderful for so many more reasons too. About A4in size & has lovely matt finished paper pages & the cover too, that you just can't help but want to stroke!!!
Excellent illustrations, magical story, a good size & feel appeal - what more could you ask for?
The perfect book to read out loud to a child! - By: Miss Leah C Taylor, 26 Feb 2005 Tove Jansson's Moomin books are usually something of a guilty secret for adults & so it is nice to see this gorgeous, colourful picture book that really is intended for children (rather than Midwinter or At Sea which have very strong adult resonances). But is still quite a guilty pleasure for adults.
It is quite a surprise but a pleasant one to see Jansson's delicate, detailed & very unique line drawings embalzoned with colour although sometimes it is used very sparinglyin predominately monochromatic scenes.
Sophie Hannah's translation is witty, warm & poetic enough to really pull out Jansson's own idiosynchratic voice & the story is told well. And the story itself? It is a gentle tale of a young Toffle who goes out into the world and... well, that would be telling.
In my mind, this is by one of the best books that an adult could read out loud to child. Magical, warm & very human & touching.
Top Toffle - By: Is, 05 May 2004 For a Swedish kid like myself, this book brings back lots of childhood memories, since Tove Jansson is a Finnish author writingin Swedish. Those already familiar with the Moomin Valley of Jansson's imagination will feel at home with Toffle. The same fairy-tale creatures pop upin this book, all vividly brought to life by the illustrations. The Toffle of the title is a timid little character, scared by just about everything - until he find someone who is even smaller & more scared than himself, someone he can actually help. The story is exciting, but I don't remember being scared by it as a kid - it's definitely less frightening than Harry Potter! I really recommend you to read this to your kids: it's a beautiful, humorous classicin the vein of Astrid Lindgren or Winnie the Pooh.
A beautiful, addictive book - By: Joan Keating, 11 Oct 2003 Got the words of 'The Book About Moomin, Mymble & Little My' (the Tove Jansson book published by Sort of Booksin 2001) burned into your brain? We have, as a result of repeated readings over the last couple of years to our children (boys aged 6 & 4 & a girl aged 2). Now 'Who Will Comfort Toffle?' looks set to gain the same status. And who can complain? Wonderful translation. Illustrations even more beautiful thanin 'Moomin, Mymble'. And a lovely gentle message. One word of warning: Your children will be insisting on finding rose bushes to attach letters to!
