I'm looking for the title of a children's book that I read in about
1977, about identical twin girls named Erika (Erica?) and Annika.

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 24 Jan 2003 12:17 PST

Hi mez1234,

It would help if you could give us as many details as you can
remember. Can you remember a bit of the story line?  For example, I
found a story about twin girls attending a wedding, and another story
which takes place on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. Either of these
ring a bell?

Thanks,
hummer

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Clarification of Question by mez1234-ga on 24 Jan 2003 17:29 PST

sure--the story is  told in the first person by Annika, the
second-born twin (she was born an hour after her sister but after
midnight, so Erika always claims she's a day older).  They girls are
so identical only their grandfather can tell them apart by the small
vein on Annika's nose.  I remember nothing about the plot (I read this
when I was seven) except that they take sick, Erika dies, and Annika
tries to pretend that it was Annika who died, and that she is Erika. 
I >think< the story takes place in Sweden, not sure.  This is all that
I remember--oh, also, it has illustrations, and must be pretty short
as I read it to myself.

Hello.

I'm certain that you must be looking for "My twin sister Erika" (1976)
by Ilse-Margret Vogel.

See this brief description from the Library of Congress catalog:
"Because of the special but sometimes difficult closeness she had with
her twin, Inge questions her own identity when her sister dies."
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+75033559&CNT=10+records+per+page

Also this description from a listing on Abebooks.com:
"Illustrated with lovely full-page line drawings by the author. Vogel,
herself a twin, captures the special closeness of twin sisters in
these five stories and also the confusion of the child left behind
when one of the twins dies."
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=69327258

More copies are available from Alibris.com:
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4542373&ptit=My%20Twin%20Sister%20Erika&pauth=Vogel%20Vogel%20Ilse%20Margret%2C%20and%20Vogel%2C%20Ilse%2DMargret&pisbn=&pbest=9%2E95&pbestnew=1000000%2E00&pqty=3&pqtynew=0&matches=3&qsort=r

search strategy: LOC catalog, erika, twin

I hope this helps.