The events described in the two stories included in the book took place a very long time ago, at the beginning of our century. Back then, airplanes were still very rare, and cars weren’t often found either. And Astrid Lindgren, who wrote these stories, was a very little girl, the same age as Madiken. She lived in southern Sweden in Småland, a picturesque but harsh region. Astrid's parents were peasants. Their whole family (Astrid Lindgren also had a brother and two sisters) lived in an old red house, surrounded on all sides by a garden. In the books of Astrid Lindgren, winner of numerous literary awards, including the highest - named after H. C. Andersen, a lot of fiction. However, the writer often turned to real pictures of her childhood. Just like the children from Bullerby, Astrid Lindgren and her brother and sisters were weeding turnips and catching crayfish. What you guys will read about in the chapter “And we ourselves don’t know what we are doing” also happened in reality to little Astrid and her sister. And many of the characters in these two books are non-fictional. For example, the shoemaker from the book “We are all from Bullerby” or Linus-Ida from the book “Madiken and Pims from Junibakken.” Astrid Lindgren’s books have been translated into many languages. Now our readers will be able to get acquainted with its new heroes and remember their peers from the village of Bullerby.