Kerstin och jag (Swedish)

"Kerstin and I was Astrid Lindgren's second published book that came out in the same year as Pippi Longstocking, the book that would be the big breakthrough for Astrid Lindgren as a writer. It is about Kerstin and Barbro, a pair of teenage twins, who end up in a smaller mansion in the country.That Astrid Lindgren grew up in the country, that she knew a lot about agriculture and that she loved nature all her life cannot be mistaken. This her second girl's book (the "bonna book" as she herself called it in a letter to her parents) is a tribute to country life and to the beauty of nature.The cover of the first edition of the book was illustrated by Margareta Klingspor. The book was then illustrated by Ulla Sundin-Wickman when it was published in the series "FIB's youth books" in 1954."