for me, because elena anatolyevna herself called me, she then offered me to make a book about francisco skorinaas our first joint book, since then elena anatolyevna and i have probably made five books already, children's books are about magic and miracles, it turns out that you illustrate a miracle, but is there a place for a miracle in your life? yuri borisovich norshteyn, a wonderful person, creator of hedgehogs of the fog and many other works, said it well and speaks about it periodically, he always says that you always need to remain a child, to look at the world with such curiosity, and when i grew up, became a big adult, i realized that i can do it by itself, that is, i go i notice some, i don’t know, there’s a beautiful tree, there’s something reflected in a puddle, that is... i’m not a little explorer who walks through familiar places every day, but sees something, something special, at every age a book is interesting in its own way, that ’s what the magic of a children’s book is in your opinion, the magic of a book in general, well, for me i can say again from my experience that i alwa