Freedom is the Best Thing

A Story of Tove Jansson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

226 kr

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From the award-winning author Matthew Burgess and the Italian illustrator Serena Mabilia, this biography of Moomin creator Tove Jansson is also a love-letter to a truly free and expressive human beingThis picture book biography of Tove Jansson, with ample back matter for reference, gives readers the scope of Jansson’s life, from childhood to her departure from her longtime summer home on her favorite island as an older woman. As a picture book for young readers, there is ample focus on her childhood and youth and a beautiful thematic emphasis on “freedom,” a word Jansson used herself from a young age. Indeed, the title of the book––Freedom is the Best Thing––comes from words she scrawled on a wall like graffiti in her youth, expressing even at that young age a value that would remain most dear to her throughout her life. In these pages, Jansson discovers her own voice, her life’s calling, and her life partner, and all the while, the soul of her childhood and passion for being free remain alive within her.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-06-10
Mått:229 x 305 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:52
Förlag:Enchanted Lion Books
Illustratör:Serena Mabilia
ISBN:9781592705146

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Matthew Burgess is a poet, educator, and the author of many celebrated picture books. He is a professor of literature and creative writing at Brooklyn College, and for over 20 years, he taught poetry programs in New York City public schools. Burgess lives in Brooklyn and Berlin. Serena Mabilia is an award-winning illustrator from Vicenza, who draws with her left hand but uses scissors with her right. She studied at the Scuola Internazionale di Sàrmede, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, and the ISIA in Urbino. Her visual universe often consists of the poetry of everyday life and the intimacy of hidden stories, along with evocations of memories and dreams.