Mitä kaikkea vanhat esineet ovatkaan elämänsä aikana nähneet? Paljonkin, ajattelee rikkinäinen pullonkaula, joka nyt toimittaa mykkänä linnun vesiastian virkaa vanhan neidin ullakk ...

Laivat tekevät hidasta matkaansa kohti pohjoisnapaa tavoitteenaan selvittää sen rajat. Ilma käy ensin kylmäksi ja sitten niin hyytäväksi, ettei sitä osaa ajatellakaan. Lopulta laiv ...

Äldre dam med mörka hemligheter innehåller fem spännande och underhållande historier, där Maud tar itu med sin systers oturliga död, en grannes odugliga, egoistiska son och ger sig ...

En morgon vaknar Sven av ett underligt ljud och när han springer ut i köket får han syn på en stolpe ute vid vägen. Hans pappa berättar att det är en telefonstolpe, så att människo ...

Kirjailija on pinteessä: paperille ei ilmesty tekstiä, ja ahdistus alkaa nostaa päätään. Apu on kuitenkin yllättävän lähellä – kun kirjailija lähtee ulos, hän kohtaa miehen lapikka ...

Työläinen on saanut huomata elämänsä aikana, että maailma haluaa vain hyötyä hänestä. Yksitoikkoiseen elämään vaihtelua voisi tuoda vain yksi asia: kirjailijan työ. Ehkä kirjailija ...

Hyvänä miehenä tunnettu suutari Simo tienaa hyvin vähän, juuri ja juuri tarpeeksi elättääkseen perheensä. Hänen on vaikea raapia kasaan ruplat ja kopeekat edes nahkojen ostoon omaa ...

A prince and his servant are exposed to great danger. They spend a night in a witch’s house. The witch however tries to poison them. Luckily they get warned and they slip out. The ...

The sculptor, Alfred, returned from Italy after spending ten years discovering Italian art and travelled to one of the cities in the province of Sjaelland island. There, everyone k ...

We should be very careful with the agreements we make because do you know what happened in "The Nixie of the Mill-Pond"? A rich man made a bargain with a nixie: the nixie was going ...

Long time ago there was a land where the moon never shined. Four boys decided to steal the moon from another place where it shined so bright during the night. They brought it back ...

What is the most entertaining thing you can think of doing while going somewhere? What about talking about random stuff? Why not discussing the names you have given your children o ...

Have you seen or heard people praying? The woman in our story does the same. She goes to a chapel in the German town named Brakel and she starts praying out loud as the thinks ther ...

Can a blind man shot a hare and a naked man put something in his pocket? Can three brothers get into a boat without a bottom? Why not? Everything is possible in tales, right? Are y ...

A poor prince is enchanted and turned into an iron stove. A princess stumbles upon the iron stove or the prince in other words and the prince begs her scrape a hole in the iron so ...

The soldiers in our story were not happy with the payment they received from the king so they deserted. Suddenly a flying dragon showed up from nowhere. He was actually the Devil h ...

An old father is ready to give his house to one of his three sons. Who will it be? He will decide based not only on the trade they learn but also on how excellent they perform it. ...

Once lived a boy who served a rich man for three years. The boy decided to leave service and asked his master to give him what he had earned. Unfortunately he got only three farthi ...

A mother loses her child and she simply cannot get over it. She is desperate and cries all the time. One day she sees the ghost of her precious little boy. Is she going crazy or th ...

Can you imaging having to wear a bearskin for seven years without taking it off? It may sound impossible but the soldier in our story was willing to try. After all he went into an ...

The king and the queen finally got a son but he was not just an ordinary boy. He had special powers and all he wished for, he got. The cook in the castle got envious and he decided ...

There lived once a father who wanted to put his sons to the test. He asked them to bring him the most beautiful carpet, the most glamorous ring and the most magnificent woman. He b ...

Thumbling is a tailor’s little son whose adventures do not come to an end. He likes wandering around and he stumbles upon robbers, animals and other creatures. Thumbling is however ...

Have you heard the saying "kindness pays back"? Here goes a story proving us the truth in these words. A poor girl lived with her sister and step-mother. The step-mother made the g ...

Omenapuun suojassa on kokoelma Runoja ja Novelleja, jotka Arto Koivumäki on kirjoittanut luovan kirjoittamisen kurssin tehtävinä. Tehtävissä on luotu vuoropuheluita ja henkilöhahmo ...