

‘Fiddlesticks,’ said Moominmamma genially and whisked away another speck of soot from her snout. ‘Everybody’s burning up!’ shouted Little My happily, ‘And everybody’s houses and gardens and playthings and little sisters and their playthings!’


And now, after all these years, exactly when I’ve finished my washing, it has to sneeze once again and blacken all the things I hang out.’ It’s always kept quiet and good ever since I married. ‘Yes, it’s a mountain not so very far from here, and all of a sudden it’s begun spitting fire and smoke over the whole valley,’ explained Moominmamma. ‘Volcano?’ asked Little My, and thrust an interested head out of the wool. ‘So very annoying, this volcano,’ she remarked. The Moomin family wild adventures starting with a volcano and a flood which separates them - for a while
