Being Kerstin

Helena Hedlund, Katarina Strömgård

Kerstin’s mom is going through a 40-year crisis, and has cut her hair into a mohawk and tattooed a heart with a ‘K’ in the middle. Is it K as in Kenneth, Kerstin’s sub? Or maybe Karen whom mom went to Mallorca with? The only thing Kerstin is really sure of is that she dislikes
40-year crises and mom should shape up. On top of that, Gunnar’s mom has threatened that she and Gunnar will move back to the city if the wild boars don’t stop trashing their garden. Now, Kerstin has to come up with a good solution to keep Gunnar from leaving.

With unforgettable characters, multilayered and humorous about 7-year old Kerstin and her world that exists where the asphalt road ends.
A story about the fear of change, great friendships, and the best thing about being Kerstin. Being Kerstin is the second book in a series of three.

Helena Hedlund is an actress and a playwright. The first entry in the series, The Best Thing About Kerstin, is her fictional debute. Katarina Strömgård is an illustrator and writer. She works with books, comics, magazines, and animations for games.

 

“Kerstin is an unusual children’s book heroine, precisely because she is no heroine at all. She experiences the impositions of growing up in her own small world: finding out what she herself wants and standing up for these wishes. […] The swedish author Helena Hedlund has written many plays for children and youth. But she has always been an actress too. Maybe that’s why she manages to take on other roles so convincingly, to unfold the whole emotional world of this wonderful little Kerstin in front of us, whose despair is painful, whose tears are touching and whose joy is contagious.” Klaus Humann, DIE ZEIT

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