★Foreign rights sold: Simplified Chinese, French, Complex Chinese, Slovak, Spanish.
★Slected as dPICTUS 2026 “100 Outstanding Picture books”.

Sharing thoughts and feelings, finding a common language, telling stories and hearing them, talking face to face or at a distance, or just spending time together - this is communication.

This book will tell you in an unusual way about different ways of transmitting messages, about communication not only between people, but also between animals, insects, and plants. It will also help you understand connections at the cellular level and signals from deep space, communication through pheromones and bioluminescence, through ripples on water, and smoke signals. It will tell you about the history of communication then and now, about verbal and nonverbal, oral and written, live and electronic, communication through touch and visual communication. About binary code, Morse and Braille alphabets, sign language, flags, and the phonetic alphabet. And also about secret languages, ciphers, and codes. About how to understand your cat, dog, or parrot. And even about how tomatoes communicate.

You can read and see all this and much more in this book.

Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv are a husband and wife team who share the art studio Agrafka in Lviv, Ukraine. They have published many award-winning titles. Their picturebooks The Mitten and The Turnip were included to the White Raven Catalogue 2012 and 2013. The Mitten was also an honorary mention at Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava 2011. Stars and Poppy Seeds was awarded the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2014 in the section of Opera Prima. They also became finalists of the Sharjah Exhibition for Children's Book Illustrations in 2014. The couple are considered to be among Ukraine's leading contemporary illustrators.