Habo Bibliotek

The wolf and the fox were into some type of agreement which is hardly called friendship. The wolf needed the fox’s help to get food because every time he tried to snatch something, ...

Jorinde and Joringel are a couple in love who wander around in the forest without realizing that they have come too close to a witch’s castle. The witch throws a magic spell over J ...

Many tales have proven that kindness pays back. Once lived a boy who was so kindhearted that he received a golden goose as a gift. There were however many greedy people who wanted ...

Snow White is a marvelous girl "with skin white as snow, lips red as blood and hair black as ebony". Her step-mother however wants to be the most beautiful of all and when one day ...

There was once a king who wanted to find a proper suitor for his precious daughter. The princess was however always finding some flaws in the future princes, so she sent all of the ...

The king and the queen’s long expected child is born and they decide to hold a feast. However a problem occurs. There are thirteen wise women in the land and they have only twelve ...

A king got lost in the woods and unfortunately he stumbled upon a witch who was willing to show him the way only if he married her daughter. After he agreed, the poor king’s misfor ...

There lived once one poor family who wished nothing more than to have a child, even if it is no bigger than a thumb. And do you know happened? They finally got a son and he was rea ...

A boy was born with the prophecy that he was about to marry the king’s daughter. The king got extremely annoyed by this possibility so he made everything he could to get rid of the ...

"The Bremen Town Musicians" is actually a tale about one donkey, one dog, one cat and a rooster who embarked on a mission. They were going to become musicians in Bremen. However so ...

Can you imagine jumping into a well only because your step-mother makes you to? Although it may sound impossible, the poor girl in our story had to do it. And she did not die. Actu ...

You have probably heard of Cinderella many times. But do you know the whole story of it and why she is called like that? Well there lived once a girl whose mother died and her fat ...

Imagine this. You take a bite from the king’s dish which is a white snake. Then suddenly you start understanding the language of animals. And this gets you out of numerous problems ...

If you make a stone path from your home to the forest, you will most certainly find your back, right? What if the path is from bread crumbs? Well, it will most certainly disappear ...

What if we told you that you can marry a prince only after you spin all the flax in a room? You would be surprised if we told you that this is what happened with the girl in our st ...

There lived once a beautiful girl named Rapunzel. She had a magnificent childhood but when she became 12 years old, an enchantress closed Rapunzel in a high tower without any doors ...

"Little Brother and Little Sister" is a magical story about two innocent children who flee the wicked stepmother they have. They seek shelter in the woods but we all know that the ...

Have you heard the saying: "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"? Well the hen and the cock in our story wanted to trick an innkeeper into letting them stay at the inn withou ...

A king and a queen had twelve sons. The queen was expecting her thirteenth child when the king announced that if it is a girl, he will kill his twelve sons. The worried mother foun ...

The life of a travelling musician is not as easy as it seems. They have to go from one place to another and oftest all by themselves. One day the musician in our story got so lonel ...

Is it a good bargain to throw money to the frogs in the pond and then complain about the frogs’ behavior? Is it smart to give a slaughtered cow to the dogs and then expect somethin ...

Goats and wolfs are not the best friends, you may know. This is why the mother goat in our tale warned her seven kids to look our for the wolf and stay away from him. However the c ...

Here goes a story about two brothers. The one was hard-working and smart while the other one was quite the opposite. He was so stupid that he even did not know what it meant to get ...

Let us tell you a magical story. There was once a beautiful princess who liked spending her time playing with a golden ball. But one day the ball fell into a well. The princess got ...

Can you imagine finding a golden key in a cold, dark winter night? What will you do with it? Where can it lead you to? Do you know that a small boy has already found a key like tha ...