![]() They are soft as cotton wool so, one by one, Moomintroll, Sniff, Snufkin, the Snork and the Snork maiden climb up on them and discover you can make them move by moving your feet and leaning to either side. A while later five fluffy clouds emerge from it and hover in the garden. The first hint of the hat’s magic is when Moomintroll absent-mindedly throws the shell of his hard-boiled egg into it. Sniff, Moomintroll and Snufkin discover the Hobgoblin’s hat.(In fact this, the centrepiece of the plot, gives its title to the original Swedish-language version of the book, Trollkarlens hatt, ‘The Magician’s Hat’. Instead, when they get to the top they find a big black top hat, which they don’t realise is the Hobgoblin’s magic hat. They wake little Sniff and decide to go for an adventure, to climb to the top of the nearest mountain and make a cairn of stones there. ![]() ![]() In the spring Moomintroll wakes up to find Snufkin has woken before him and is sitting on the bridge over the little river. Winter comes and the Moomins eat a last meal before hibernating. This is the third of the Moomintroll books, published in 1948 and translated into English by Elizabeth Portch in 1950. All the Moomin books bring back lovely memories, the feelings of wonder, adventure and safety I had when I read them as a boy. ![]()
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