Instead he writes a letter explaining his feelings. Finally Toffle has a chance to comfort Miffle, but once again finds himself too shy to speak. He bites her tail, which makes her so surprised she runs off screaming. He makes a makeshift boat of his bag and travels the oceans, with his newfound courage he's able to talk to and befriend people, he's even able to speak to the enormous Booble.Īt the other side of a dark forest Toffle finds and confronts the Groke.

Suddenly, Toffle grows confident and determined to find and comfort Miffle. In the ocean Toffle finds a message in a bottle from Miffle, who writes about how scared she is of the Groke. Instead he goes to the beach where he finds a beautiful seashell that he makes his new home. One night he's had enough and abandons his home at dawn to live somewhere else, during the day he sees lots of people going by, but he's to scared to talk to anyone.Īt night Toffle comes across a party in the woods, but stays outside of it. Toffle lives alone in a small house where he is constantly frightened by giant hemulens walking outside. The letter was signed “Toffle”. Tove was so moved that she wrote a book about a small, frightened creature who lives all alone until one day, when he embarks on a journey to find friends. In the letter the young boy expressed how sad, lonely and scared he is. Tove Jansson wrote the book “Who Will Comfort Toffle?” after receiving a letter from a fan. However, other familiar faces like the Mymble, Little My, Snufkin, Too-ticky, Salome and the Groke appear alongside staple Moomin races like hemulens, fillyjonks and whompers. This was the first Moomin book not to feature the Moomin family. The story follows the lonely and frightened Toffle, who is searching for friends, but too shy to talk to anyone. It was first translated into English by Kingsley Hart. Who Will Comfort Toffle? (Swedish: Vem ska trösta Knyttet?) is the eight in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomin books and the second picture book, published in 1960.

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