”Then someone came towards them fast, completely out of breath,
’I’m Sniff,’ he cried, ’my tail’s on fire! Please help, I’ll burn to death.’”

The Dangerous Journey
Tove Jansson

A delightful picture book in rhyme that offers the very last glimpse of Moominvalley as drawn by Jansson herself.

A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes and the sea, where birds fly upside down and wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. Old friends from Moominvalley – The Hemulen, Sniff, Snufkin, Thingummy and Bob – have joined her in her journey, and Too-ticky too, who rides to their rescue in a stripey balloon. And who should be waiting to celebrate their safe landing? Why, Moomintroll of course.

The Dangerous Journey on the publisher Sort of Books’ website.

The book was first published in Swedish as Den farliga resan in 1977 and was translated into English in 1978.