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小孩子,大孩子,姆明孩子 　　I grew up with my aunt Tove Jansson’s fantastic books about 1)imaginary creatures who live in Moominvalley. Though entirely fictional, the Moomins are blessed with some of the best and most exciting human qualities that make them still 2)lovable to kids around the world these days. 　　Tove was born into a family of artists in Helsinki. 　　She was the first child of the 3)sculptor Viktor Jansson and his wife Signe Hammarsten Jansson, an 4)illustrator. It seemed 5)inevitable that she should pursue some sort of artistic career. School was difficult for her because her teachers did not have a lot of 6)sympathy for her artistic 7)inclinations. At the age of 15, encouraged by her parents, Tove left to 8)enroll at the School of Applied Arts in Stockholm. 　　Later in her life, Tove was often asked why she started writing and what specifically gave birth to the Moomin stories. 　　She explained that painting helped her forget the conditions of the 1940s, so she 　　illustrated an exciting, funny adventure story with a happy ending. This once-upon-a-time story was about a little Moomin and his mother, wandering through the woods looking for Moominpappa who was lost. After many adventures, the three are reunited in an 9)idyllic valley, where Moominpappa has built them a house. 　　The earliest idea for the Moomin characters came from the stories an uncle told Tove during her student years in Stockholm. Later she used a figure, slightly 10)hippo-like in appearance, as the signature for her cartoons. That later became the figures we recognize as the Moomins of today. 　　Tove’s most beloved 11)refuge was her house on a 12)remote island off the coast of southern Finland. In fact, she spent almost every summer of her life in the countryside near the sea, or on an island out at sea. My aunt once said, “Had it not been for my very happy childhood, I might never have started writing. If, 13)on the whole, I never wrote entirely for children at all ? maybe it was just for