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theteddybearthateatsyou:

The Moomins

Moomin! I enjoyed the first five books of course but the last four are especially sublime. I love children’s stories with an element of somberness, which Moominpappa at Sea and Moominvalley in November deliver in spades, to the point where I’ve heard some people question whether they can still be considered kids books at all
 the answer to which is of course yes! Children’s literature that doesn’t make a child feel and think is the equivalent of junk food IMO, and I don’t think it’s any mistake that all the books/movies/comics I enjoyed as a child I can/do still enjoy, as an adult, today.

Also Snufkin. Who doesn’t love Snufkin?

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty.” – Cs Lewis

Also snufkin is the best ever ever ever ever

bobcatmoran:

Favorite image of the day: A photo taken by Brett Cizek of a common merganser with a massive brood of over 50 ducklings trailing after her. Biologists guess that she picked up at least a couple dozen who got separated from their mother, and maybe a few more pre-hatching since ducks often lay a couple eggs in other ducks’ nests as a way of not
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putting all their eggs in one basket. So big broods are not uncommon, but this is definitely larger than usual.

Apparently since this photo was taken, she’s picked up another two dozen and is now wandering around Bemidji, MN, with over 70 ducklings in tow.

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Source: bobcatmoran