Once they discover the magic powers of the hat and use it for a few transformations, the family resolves to get rid of it and throw it into the river. Moomintroll hides inside the hat during a game of hide-and-seek and is temporarily transformed beyond recognition. Next day the clouds have disappeared and nobody knows where they came from. An egg shell discarded into the hat becomes five clouds the children ride and play with. Moomintroll, Sniff and Snufkin discover the Hobgoblin's top hat on a mountain-top, unaware of its strange powers. The novel forms the basis of episodes 1–8 in the 1990 TV series. Otherwise, the book was translated by Elizabeth Portch. The 1961 English publication features a foreword "by Moominmamma", where she explains the nature of Moomins for fear that English children may not have heard of them she also apologises for her "rottn" English. It owes its title in translation to the fact that it was the first Moomin book to be published in English, and was actually marketed as the first in the series until the 1980s. Finn Family Moomintroll (original Swedish title Trollkarlens hatt, ‘The Magician's Hat’ US edition The Happy Moomins) is the third in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in Swedish in 1948 and translated to English in 1950.
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