What is Moomins?
{{Infobox book | name = The Moomins | image = Muumipeikko.jpg |caption = Moomintroll in Muumimaailma, Naantali. 2010 | title_orig = Mumintroll | translator = * To English: Elizabeth Portch, Thomas Warburton, Kingsley Hart | author = [[Tove Jansson]] | illustrator = [[Tove Jansson]] | cover_artist = | country = [[Finland]] | language = [[Swedish language|Swedish]]<ref>{{cite book|last = Meek|first = Margaret|title = Children's Literature and National Identity|publisher = Trentham Books|year = 2001|location = [[Stoke-on-Trent|Stoke on Trent, UK]]|page = 4|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Pv1mmwjnWXMC&pg=PA4|isbn = 978-1-85856-204-9}}</ref> | series = | subject = | genre = Children's fantasy | publisher = [[Drawn and Quarterly]], [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]], [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]], Schildts, Zangavar, Sort of Books | pub_date = | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print, digital | pages = | isbn = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} The '''Moomins''' ({{lang-sv|Mumintroll}}) are the main characters in a series of [[book]]s and a [[comic strip]] by [[Swedish-Finn|Swedish-speaking Finnish]] illustrator and writer [[Tove Jansson]], originally published in [[Swedish language|Swedish]] by Schildts<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://schildts.asiakkaat.sigmatic.fi/mumin.html |title=Publisher's webpage about the Moomins (in Swedish only) |access-date=2016-01-02 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230719/http://schildts.asiakkaat.sigmatic.fi/mumin.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> in [[Finland]]. They are a family of white, roundish fairy tale characters with large [[snouts]] that make them look like [[hippopotamus]]es. The carefree and adventurous family live in their house in [[Moominvalley]], though in the past, their part-time residences ha