Vi på Saltkråkan

Go down to Strandvägkajen in Stockholm on a summer morning and see if there is a small white archipelago boat named Sea Crow I. If there is, just get on board. At ten o'clock on the dot she depart because now she is going out on her usual journey, the one that ends at the islands at the far end of the ocean strip. There lies Seacrow Island, the island that has given her her name. And there came one day in June a father and his four children, it was the Melkerson family...

Astrid Lindgren originally wrote Seacrow Island as a TV script for Sveriges Television. The book is based on the incredibly popular TV series, which also spawned four subsequent films. Astrid drew inspiration for the archipelago environments mainly from her summer residence in Furusund.