The Best Thing about Kerstin

Helena Hedlund & Katarina Strömgård

Where the asphalt road ends and the gravel road begins, that’s where Kerstin lives. She is six years old and loves gold. 105 golden things are in a box underneath her bed. The nicest and most golden thing about Kerstin is her hair. It truly sparkles. Fatima says that Kerstin’s hair is orange, but it’s not true. The latest addition to Kerstin’s collection is a small ring that she found on the floor at school. When her teacher Lottie asks if anyone has seen her wedding ring, not a peep comes out of Kerstin’s mouth. And then it’s too late.

A story of tangled secrets, friendship, and the best thing about being Kerstin. The first part in a series of three books.

Helena Hedlund is an actress and a playwright. The Best Thing about Kerstin is her fictional debut.

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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