A bright, inspiring and useful book in which famous children's illustrators from different countries share their experience of creating stories for children from 0 to 8 years old and reveal the secrets of their skills. The book will teach you how to create illustrations that reflect the course of the narrative, tell a story in pictures using basic narrative techniques, keep the reader's attention with the help of the correct selection of colors, clarity of illustrations and their ability to evoke an emotional response from the reader, as well as an optimal combination of drawings and text. Nine stories await you, using the example of which we show what the decoration of children's books can be. Wonderful artists, masters of their craft, not only illustrated these stories, but also gave detailed comments. At the end of the book you will find a list of the main publishing and artistic terms with their interpretation - if necessary, you can refer to this dictionary at any time.