Hyltebiblioteken

There were five peas in a pod: they held their line and waited for the moment to leave. For them, everything was green: they were green and their world, which was limited to their ...

While the town judge was at his window, the son of the washerwoman passed before him. The judge said him unkind words to him about his mother. She drank to keep warm during the lon ...

Johanne and Knud lived close to the town of Kjöge, where there are many gardens that extend as far as the river. There is not much else, but it is charming in summer! It was under ...

It was the month of May and spring had arrived, although it was still cold. The flowers were blooming, but not all flowers receive the same praise. Some would say that there a diff ...

In this short tale, Hans Christian Andersen depicts a castle’s ramparts on an autumn day. A bird flies through the prison cell window and softens the heart of the miserable prisone ...

A flea, a grasshopper and a jumping goose entered a competition to see who could jump the highest. Who would win? That is a question that would turn out to be more complicated than ...

This story goes back to the very first people on Earth, Adam and Eve, and their children. When God decided to pay a visit to them, Eve hided those children she meant were ugly. God ...

Can your life change when you give a helping hand? You can never know before you do it, right? Without expecting anything, a rich count offered help to an old lady carrying a heavy ...

Something frightening and unexplainable happens in the near forest. The king keeps sending his huntsmen there and they keep on not coming back. Some creature is apparently killing ...

Once lived three unordinary sisters. The first one was only with one eye. You can guess what her name was. The second one, the most normal of them three, had two eyes. The youngest ...

Four brothers learn four different trades. They travel home to show their father the skills they have developed. And then suddenly a princess is taken away by a dragon. Of course t ...

One poor soldier wanders around not having a single coin, nor anything to eat. He meets one old lady and he begs food from her. The woman helps him but it turns out that she is not ...

A father was going to head out on a long journey and he asked his three daughters what they wanted him to bring them back. His two older daughters wanted beautiful and shiny things ...

A miller’s daughter is taken to the king’s castle. He has heard that she can spin straw into gold and he wants to see if it really is true. Can it be? What do you think? Well it wa ...

A step-mother hates her son so badly that she kills him. Her daughter manages to hide her step-brothers bones which she buries under a juniper-tree. The tree is however magical and ...

There lived once an evil sorcerer who went from door to door pretending to be a poor man in need of help. When a pretty girl opened her home for him, he would compel her to jump in ...

There lived once one little girl who most of us know by the name "Little Red Riding Hood". Do you know why she was called like that? Because she was wearing all the time the red ho ...

There was once a tailor who killed seven flies at one stroke. He was so proud of himself that he made a belt embroidered with the words "Seven at one stroke". Then a giant saw the ...

No matter if Bram Stoker has really been inspired by Verne or not, the similarities between Stokers’s "Dracula" and Verne’s "Carpathian Castle" are apparent. Jules Verne’s horror n ...

Äntligen kommer Järnguld, den efterlängtade första delen i en ny episk sci-fi trilogi av Pierce Brown, den bästsäljande författaren till serien Rött uppror.Tio år efter händelserna ...

Victor Jones, better known as Vai, is your average rebellious teenager, complete with colored hair and piercings ... and an alcoholic, neglectful mother. As if things couldn't get ...

Pyrrus och Kerk åker till planeten Östvärlden för att inhandla vapen. Vapnen behövs för att bekämpa det aggressiva växt- och djurlivet på Dödsplaneten. De blir inblandade i en makt ...

Dystopisk urban fantasy om hjältemod som inte sitter i förmågor, utan i hjärtat. Elijah förlorade allt i fallet. Kvinnan som stått honom närmast, sina krafter och sitt kall. Livet ...

Once lived a family of nine, a mother, a father, and their seven sons. The eighth child was on the way. The seven brothers got a little sister. She was however so sick that the fam ...

Do you think it is possible to not confess your sins if you are about to be burnt at stake? Most probably not, right? Well the girl in our story is so stubborn that you might rethi ...