there seems to have been a similar stop motion animation series some time ago…this is quite nice.

ah, from wikipedia…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_%28TV_series%29

“The Moomins (Polish: Opowiadania Muminków, German: Die Mumins) is a stop motion animated children’s television series based on the Tove Jansson’s Moomin series of books which was originally produced by Se-ma-for and Jupiter Film between the years 1977–1982, originally for Polish, Austrian and German television. The series was later on sold to other countries including the UK. The British version was adapted by Anne Wood at Film Fair and first broadcast in the UK in 1983 on CITV and was repeated until 1989, and was narrated by British actor Richard Murdoch.”