Cynthia Kinnunen blogs about sharing stuff from your childhood with your kids
Moominworld
I’m not certain how many of you will have heard of The Moomins, but they are characters in a wonderful set of books originally written in the 1940s and ‘50s. They were written by a Swedish Finn named Tove Jansson, and they follow the lives of a strange little group of forest creatures and the (sometimes dark) adventures they embark on.
My mother was born in Finland, and thus there are a great many things in my life influenced by Finnish culture. The Moomins are one of those quirky little phenomena that may not have really caught on in North America, but I find very enjoyable and have, of course, forced upon shared with my own children.
