Tove Jansson "The Wizard's Hat"

One day Moomin-troll and his friends find a hat, withmind - the most common, but in fact it turns out to be magic. The egg shell in it stops in white fluffy clouds, the formidable ant-lion into a cute hedgehog, Moomin-troll himself into a terrible monster, and Undead's false jaws into a mysterious creature.

But Mysterious Wizard's Hat - not the only thing that Moomin-troll and hisfriends will face this summer. They will save the inseparable Tofslu and Bethsle from the terrible Morra (though they will have to give her a magic hat for this), investigate the loss of Mumi's beloved handbag and arrange a huge feast in honor of the found purse, on which a wizard appears and fulfills the wishes of all Mumi-dola residents .

Like all good tales, "The Wizard's Hat"much closer to our life than it seems at first glance. It's an adult magical transformations seem like stupidity and a fable - and the child uses magic every day to turn ordinary into extraordinary. And the name of this magic is fantasy. Children's imagination, even a wizard's hat is not needed.

In the inhabitants of Mumi-dola, the child recognizes himself, hisparents, brothers, sisters, friends and neighbors. Despite all its unusualness, the Mumi-Troll family is the most ordinary - how many such friendly families live very near, on the next street, in a neighboring house or even an apartment. Or maybe, in the Moomin family, your child will also learn his own?

"Wizard's Hat" is an excellent book for childrenreading: on the one hand, it is easy enough to perceive, and on the other - it does not have the simplicity and primitiveness inherent in some children's books. Introduce the child to the magical world of Moomin-troll - give him a fairy tale! And if he likes the "Wizard's Hat", do not forget to let him read and Other books about the adventures of Moomin-troll and his friends.

Quotations from the book

"Midnight passed, when suddenly the whole garden lit uppink light. The dances stopped: everyone decided that this was some kind of new kind of fireworks. But it's just that Topsla and Bethsla opened their suitcase. The king of rubies, flashing, lay on the lawn, beautiful as ever. All the lights, lanterns and even the moon itself have faded, lost their luster. In awe, the flaming gem was surrounded by an increasingly dense and numerous crowd.

"I'm sure there's nothing more beautiful in the world," Mumi-Mama said.

And Sniff took a deep breath and said:

"Well, the lucky ones are these Topsla and Bethsla!"

"And the inhabitants of Mumi-dale continued in the silentThinking to sit in front of the King of rubies. In his flame, he saw all the most beautiful, bold and noble that they ever imagined or experienced, and now they were happy to relive all this.

Moomin-troll remembered his night walk withSnusemrikom; franken Snork thought of her brilliant victory over the wooden queen. And Mumi-Mom thought that she was lying again on the sun-warmed sand and saw the sky between the swinging heads of sea studs. "

"Oh, how sweet it is to eat everything, drink everything, talk about everything, and dance to it so that tired feet barely carry you home to a quiet, dawning hour - to sleep, to sleep!

The wizard will fly to the end of the world, and the mouse will climb into its grassy mound, but both will be equally happy.

And, perhaps, the happiest will be Moomin,who, together with his mother, will go home through the garden at dawn, when the moon and leaves will be shaken by a morning breeze from the sea. In Mumi-dol comes a cool autumn, and so it is necessary because without it there is no new spring. "