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Finn Family Moomintroll
Finn Family Moomintroll (original Swedish title "Trollkarlens hatt", ‘The Magician's Hat’; US edition "The Happy Moomins") is the third in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in Swedish in 1948 and translated to English in 1950. It owes its title in translation to the fact that it was the first Moomin book to be published in English, and was actually marketed as the first in the series until the 1980s.
The 1961 English publication features a foreword
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- The Muskrat () – a philosopher who believes in the pointlessness of things and reads Spengler, appears in "Comet in Moominland" and "Finn Family Moomintroll". The Moomin children annoy him by putting hairbrushes in his bed and such like. He eventually takes to living in the cave Sniff discovers in order to get some peace. There is an unfortunate accident, however: in "Finn Family Moomintroll", Moomintroll has hidden the Hobgoblin's hat there; anything you put in the Hobgoblin's