Presented in a beautiful blue, illustrated slipcase, this embossed yellow hardback edition of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem, illustrated with perfect whimsy by Tove Jansson, follows an eccentric crew in search of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures: the Snark.

The Hunting of the Snark relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of the Snark. The slipcase edition of this beautiful book makes a great gift for a child to treasure for a lifetime.

In 1959, Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its magical inhabitants, was commissioned to illustrate a Swedish edition of Lewis Carroll's miniature masterpiece. It proved an inspired choice, as the enigmatic charms of Jansson's illustrative style bring to life the beauty and strangeness of Carroll's tale. The minds of two of the greatest children's authors of the past 150 years meet on the page.

Remarkably, amid the success of Tove Jannson's Moomin books, her edition of The Hunting of the Snark was forgotten, and was unavailable for over fifty years. We present these beautiful illustrations here, matched with Lewis Carroll's original English text, so that readers can encounter this wonderful adventure afresh through the eyes of one of Europe's finest illustrators.

Lewis Carroll (1832–98), the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865, one of the best-selling children's books of all-time, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, 1871. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy.

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Most famous for her much-loved Moomin novel series for children, Jansson's books have been translated into over forty languages. In 1966, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her work as a children's author.