★ A book about books! This interesting book was born in one of the most book-scented places in the world—the Bologna Children’s Book Fair!
★ Tells children everything about books: the past and present lives of books; how books are born; every link in bookmaking; understanding book structure; why we read and what reading brings us; bookstores, libraries, and home collections; reading notes, book clubs, and book-blog sharing, etc.!
★ The illustrations are concise and cheerful, accurate yet leaving room for fantasy. Each chapter has a dominant color: in the chapter about typesetting, the dominant color is gray, like the tools of printers; while in the chapter about creativity, the dominant color is of course bright!
★ Without a doubt~ this book will attract every child who likes reading! For children who don’t like reading, it will make them fall in love with books and reading in a special way! At the same time, it is suitable for any adult and parent who loves books.
★ Suitable for children aged 6 and above.

When we open a new book, our nose is immediately attracted by its smell. What does a book smell like? Books give off the scent of printing ink, and beyond that, the smell of creativity, new discoveries… there is nothing that books do not contain! Page after page, this book will tell every reader who opens it how a children’s book and an adult book begin and how they are born. What were books like in the past, and how have they changed now? How to choose books in a bookstore and make a “paper” gift? How to make friends with a library? How does a library protect and manage books? How to create a library at home? How to make your own ex-libris? How to start a reading diary that is not boring? How to organize a book club? How to create a book blog and find new friends all over the world!

[Excerpt]
“Books in the library give off a special smell, because they have been to many places and seen many things…”

[Words from the Authors]
This book was born in the most book-scented place in the world—the Bologna Book Fair. The Bologna Children’s Book Fair was first held in 1963, and since then, the four-day fair held every March or April has become a traditional event to see the elite of children’s publishing. We kept wandering among the bookstalls… and then an idea sprouted: a book about books! Ideas about the contents of the book came one after another, so we sat on empty chairs and wrote down everything we could think of. We wanted to tell everyone that reading is fashionable, that it is very important to cultivate taste, reading aesthetics, and bookishness. In addition, reading can help you make friends all over the world!
When we got home, we immediately started writing the text and drawing the first illustration sketches. We tried to make the illustrations concise and cheerful, accurate yet leaving room for fantasy. Each chapter has a dominant color: in the chapter about typesetting, the dominant color is gray, like the tools of printers; while in the chapter about creativity, the dominant color is of course bright! These illustrations not only show what elements a book is composed of, how a printing house works, how to fold page corners, and how to design reading notes, but also show that as readers, when we immerse ourselves in the world invented by the author, enjoying the feelings and gains therein, and sharing reading feelings with friends, it is so interesting!

Author: Daria Praksyunova
Daria Praksyunova has worked in the book field for more than 12 years and can be said to be a person who keeps company with books. First an editor, working in several publishing houses, then an author, creating and publishing her own books, she is also a book agent, managing books by other authors and artists. She also founded her own publishing-project studio “DASHA-PUBLISHER” and a community of authors and illustrators with the same name, participating in various book conferences, exhibitions, and festivals. Daria Praksyunova is good at creating complex educational books and captures curious children in a distinctive way!

Illustrator: Yulia Prokhotskaya
A Russian artist who graduated from the Faculty of Theory and History of Art of the Moscow State Surikov Art Institute. Currently engaged in book illustration, she cooperates with Russian and many foreign publishers. She is a participant in the international illustration festival “Morse” and the international comic festival “Boomfest,” and one of the founders of the illustrators’ community “Illustrator’s Environment.” She has won the “New Book” book-competition award and the Russian international illustration and book-design competition “Image of the Book” award (co-hosted by the Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications and the Russian Moscow Association of Book Illustrators and Designers). Yulia not only likes to illustrate books but is also a thorough bookworm; her bookshelves are already overwhelmed! Yulia also leads a poetic life, likes to bake pies, make coffee, take walks in nature, look for new routes, mushrooms, berries, traces of wild animals, and of course, adventures!