The new book, what a nice surprise!

I wrote earlier this summer about the new ABBA book for kids 9-12 years old. Today I got it. And what a nice surprise it was! It's not that big, approx 15 x 20 cm in size and 80 pages and it's in Swedish. But it has some great photos! I love it when different  (however slightly) pictures from well known photo shoots are made available for us faithful fans. I didn't expect much after I saw the cover - how overused is that photo?
     The author, Helena Bross, has previously published easy-to-read books about Olof Palme and Astrid Lindgren. The ISBN number is 9163846195.
     The pressrelease says:
"ABBA" is the third book in a series of easy-read-biographies of famous people. It includes unique pictures from private collections.
   "ABBA" is the story about four young people who made music that still lives on and continues to fascinate and spread happiness to generation after generation. Always popular, now with the successfull musical "Mamma Mia!".
     Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met by chance when their music groups Hootenanny Singers and Hep Stars were touring. They had fun together at a party one night and it ended with them sitting in a flower bed singing together. It was the beginning of a long collaboration.
     A couple of years later was Björn engaged to Agnetha and Benny to Anni-Frid. They realized that the two girls' voices sounded great together. Maybe the four of them should perform together? The first try was a failure. They put together a stageshow at a restaurant in Gothenburg. The music was not written by themselves and they told bad jokes. They promised each other never to be on the same stage again after this experience.
     But something happened. Björn and Benny started to write songs together.
   In 1973 they participated in Melodifestivalen with the song "Ring Ring". Later that year Stikkan Anderson came up with the name ABBA by using the initials from the group member's first names.
     The year after they won the whole contest with a bang, first at home in Sweden and then in Brighton with the song Waterloo". They immediately got successfull in Europe and became stars overnight.
     When the group disbanded in 1982 they had had some tough years trying to stay on top.