As Moomintroll gets wasp-stung Moominpappa wants to cheer him up by telling about his own adventurous youth. Pappa tells about how he escapes from an orphanage and about his historic meeting with an inventor called...

Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of having his winter slumber as usually. Winter is certainly totally different than he had imagined.

The Moomins set sail for the Riviera, where, after a journey fraught with storms and desert island dangers, Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the attentions of a playboy and Moomin learns that jealousy's sting is the most painful...