share how your creative collaboration with elena estelmakh came about. , a miracle for me great, because elena anatolyevna called me herself when she offered me to make a book about french with karina, this was our first joint book and since then. elena anatolyevna and i have probably already made about five books, children's books - this is about magic and a miracle happens. you illustrate a miracle, is there a place for a miracle in your life? you said very well and speaks about it periodically yuri borisovicheyn, a wonderful person, the creator of hedgehogs in the fog of many other works. he always says about the need to always remain a child with such curiosity to look at the world and when i grew up and became a big adult, i realized that i can do it by itself. that is, i’m walking and i notice some things there, i don’t know, there’s a beautiful tree there, there ’s something in the puddle there. that is, i am not such a small researcher who every day goes to the usual places, but sees something, something, something special. every age the book is i