E-böcker / Barn & Ungdom
The Willow-Wren
The bird kingdom is missing a king, so they decide to hold a contest. The one to fly the highest will be the winner. The contest starts. The eagle is about to win. And all of a sud ...
The Peasant in Heaven
Do you think there is a difference between poor and rich men in Heaven? Do they get treated differently? Can you imagine that the peasant in our story witnesses how a rich man gets ...
Lazy Harry
A man had a goat, but he was so lazy that it costed him great effort to take the goat to the pasture each and every day. So he came up with a genius plan. He was going to find a wi ...
A Riddling Tale
There is a spell over the three women in our story. They get transformed into flowers but each of them can return home at night one at a time. The spell can be reversed only if the ...
Going A-Travelling
Travelling is said to give you many unforgettable moments and experiences. The boy in our tale will for sure keep some memories but are they going to be good? He decided to repeat ...
The Lazy Spinner
A peasant’s wife is so lazy that she always comes up with excuses for not getting some work done. She has to spin but she does it so reluctantly that there is often something quite ...
The Three Apprentices
There lived three apprentices who always worked in the same town and always travelled together. Once they stumbled upon a rich man who wanted their help in return for a lot of mone ...
The Three Army Surgeons
Three army surgeons show off their skills. The first cuts off his hand, the other tears off his heart and the third takes out his eye. And this is only to impress one innkeeper. Th ...
The Bright Sun Brings It to Light
A tailor’s poverty made him commit a crime. He was travelling around searching for work but there was nowhere to be found. He was so desperate that when he saw a Jew he decided to ...
Sweet Porridge
A poor mother and her daughter are starved to death. One day the miserable girl meets an old lady in the woods who gifts her with a small magical pot which fills with sweet porridg ...
Hans Married
Hans’ uncle wanted to marry his nephew to a rich man’s daughter. Hans’ fortune was however not that big so the uncle had to come up with a trick. He went to the neighbor village wh ...
Brother Lustig
Brother Lustig was a soldier who got dismissed from the army. He wandered around when he one day stumbled upon a beggar who he shared his food with. Surprisingly the beggar turned ...
Clever Grethel
One night the master in our story was going to have guests so he asked his cook Grethel to prepare one chicken for him and one for the guests. And so she did. But she prepared them ...
The Fox and His Cousin
Have you heard of a strong friendship between a fox and a wolf? We neither. However the fox and the wolf in our tale meant to be so close, that they called each other cousins. But ...
The Three Children of Fortune
A father leaves his three sons three simple and seemingly useless things. The first one gets a cock, the second one – a scythe and the third one a cat. He leaves them something mor ...
The Twelve Huntsmen
A prince and a princess are in love but the prince’s father wants his son to marry another girl. The devastated princess comes up with a plan. She gathers a group of eleven more la ...
The Hare's Bride
"The Hare’s Bride" is a tale about one ambitious and courageous hare who would not take "no" for an answer. He was cheeky enough to eat all the cabbage in the garden, but he also w ...
The Little Peasant
Once lived a little peasant who had a cow which he could not feed. So he killed it. And he headed out to the city to sell its skin. On the way there a storm caught him and he begge ...
The Dog and the Sparrow
The poor dog in our story is so badly treated by his master, that he decides to leave home. He meets a sparrow, who convinces him to head out to the city. His life however changes ...
The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn
Do you think it is smart to exchange a magical table cloth which fills with food every time it is spread out with a simple sack with seven soldiers inside? Well the youngest brothe ...
Old Sultan
Do you expect something in return when you offer somebody your help? Well, you should not. The wolf in our story however did. He helped his poor old friend, the dog Sultan, by plot ...
The Godfather
Once lived a father who had to decide on a godfather for his child. He could not come up with a better plan, so he chose the Death. It sounds like the stupidest decision ever but i ...
Herr Korbes
A hen and a rooster are about to pay a visit to Herr Korbes. They travel with a carriage and they stumble upon some other adventurers on the way. They pick all of them up. And by a ...
Clever Elsie
Did you manage to read "Clever Hans" already? Do you remember how clever he actually was? Well Elsie turns out to be as clever as him? One day a boy came to her house. He was going ...
The Girl without Hands
Can you imagine having a father who would give you to the Devil in exchange for riches and wealth? The poor girl in our story had to endure not only this but getting her hands cut ...