Upplands-Bro bibliotek

Sometimes no matter how hard we try, we cannot reach our goal. And, of course, it is much easier to claim our goal undesirable than to admit defeat. There is hardly a child who doe ...

Sweet words and manipulative compliments can make everyone's head spin. The 'Fox and the Crow' teaches us to keep clear mind in the face of flattery. Aesop (620–564 BCE) was a sto ...

Rasmus was a bitter, pessimistic young boy who was nothing like his good and pious mother. Rasmus was with a free spirit and he could not bear living in a small town. So he set on ...

Urbanus was a young and pious young man who was entrusted with the keys to the cloister’s book collection. Urbanus spent his days reading the writings of the Apostle Paul. He was h ...

Why were the fables created? Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of the wise men of ancient times who ingeniously discovered how to tell people the truth without being blunt to ...

A prince and a princess were just married. They were in love, their relationship was stronger than anything. And they wanted to keep it like that forever. But how? They thought tha ...

If you think that the destiny of four pigs and one coach can’t become intertwined, you may as well grab Hans Christian Andersen’s tale "The Pigs". When everything seems predestined ...

Once lived an old woman who was so poor that she could not afford to buy coffin for her death husband. She was desperate and hopeless and the only thing that kept her going was the ...

With the beginning of a new century, we wait for one thing, a new source of inspiration for our poetry that will set it apart from that of the previous centuries. But where is thi ...

I love listening to grandfather tell stories, but my favourite story is the story of the shields: according to grandfather, in a large town it was always practical to know how to g ...

Is the good deed worth it if it remains a secret? It is indeed meaningful and significant both for the one who reaches out a helping hand and for the one who takes it. "Kept Secret ...

Here we are in Paris, where we will visit the exhibition. On the square next to our hotel, we are planting a tree that will shelter a dryad. This dryad, when its tree lived in the ...

The windmill on the top of the hill swelled with pride whenever someone looked up at him. And even though he pretended not to be, he was very proud of himself as well!Hans Christia ...

Outside, it is dark. The earth and the trees are covered with snow and a storm arrives with the clouds. But we are sitting inside next to the fire and we tell stories to pass the t ...

Now that we are in Jylland, we will go to the Börglum monastery, right at the top of the hill of sand. It is night, and on the upper floors of the monastery, the wind howls – the a ...

Julen närmar sig och Evelin tillbringar mest sin tid åt att vara tyst på sitt rum. Lägenheten är full av flyttkartonger. Hon och mamma har bara bott där i två veckor, och det känns ...

I Bamses kokbok bjuder Bamse och hans vänner på sina bästa recept. Ni kan till exempel laga Farmors köttbullar till middag, Teddys tonfiskrullar till mellanmål och baka Bamses honu ...

Välkommen in i Böckernas Bok! Läs om skapelsen och ormen, Noa och arken, om när Mirjam räddade sin lillebror Mose och hur David besegrade Goljat. Du får också läsa om Jesus som föd ...

Andra boken om världens mest populära Ninja-katt  »Halsbrytande fart och härliga humoristiska illustrationer. Gör dig redo att spinna av lycka! Ninjakatten Toto är ett jamande lite ...

Petter vaknade en mörk natt. Han visste något nu. Något han inte vetat innan. Ja, hans syster skulle få ett fint litet gosedjur. Det var precis vad hon behövde nu när hon låg på sj ...

Följ med till Jerusalem när Jesus och hans lärjungar ska fira påsk. En påsk som skulle bli helt annorlunda och mycket märklig. Redan när Jesus föddes var det något speciellt med ho ...

Har du också märkt att det brukar försvinna saker? En handske, ett paraply eller kanske en mössa? Det har Tosse märkt. Han är elva år och bor med sin mamma i en alldeles vanlig lit ...

Lo tvingas flytta till Töre mot sin vilja och blir först lite skadeglad när mamma och mammans sambo Sam får problem. De ska nämligen starta ett pensionat i den nyss nerlagda skolan ...

Olipa kerran mystinen auringon puu, jonka latva kasvoi aina taivaisiin saakka. Puun latvassa sijaitsi kristallilinna, jossa asui maailman viisain mies. Mies, joka osasi puhua eläin ...

Har du någonsin undrat varför det knakar när man drar i fingret? Varför man har en blindtarm när man ändå inte behöver den? Och varför luktar egentligen fisar så illa? Nu behöver d ...