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The Moomins Book 4: The Exploits of Moominpappa

AuthorTove Jansson

NarratorHugh Dennis

Duration3h 12m

CategoriesChildren's Fiction, LGBTQ+ Literature

Key StageKS2

PublisherPenguin

VersionUnabridged

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If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tove Jansson's endearing classic, The Exploits of Moominpappa, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. 'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story-from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.

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