Same here, Death - I felt very sorry for Mora. I recall I cried as a child, because she would never have friends - as everything started to freeze in her presence. And the gem... was just a very poor token to comfort her in her loneliness.
Alrik, yes, there was a TV series - but not as good as the original books with their drawings.
Tove Jansson: Die Mumins - they were trolls (or I think they can be called trolls).
further German titles, just a few of them:
Mumins wundersame Inselabenteuer
Herbst im Mumintal
Sturm im Mumintal
