TOVE JANSSON - HOBBIT ILLUSTRATIONS - 1962 - I grew up on Tove Jannson’s Moomintroll books. That series was perfect, light-hearted, eccentric, mysterious & illustrated by her in a style that matched modern design sensibilities with the open ended, curiousity encouraging spirit of the best children’s literature. Astrid “Pippi Longstocking” Lindgrren (another of my favorites) (I used to work in the Children’s Room at the Oakland Public Library) was the person responsible for getting Tove to illustrate the Swedish edition of the Hobbit. It was Tove Jansson’s wonderful interpretation of Gollum as this huge monster that made Tolkien revise his book to make it clear that Gollum was a wretched, Hobbit-like creature. Enjoy her pieces! I’m going to furtherly explore her work in a future post.