"I have always wanted to fly... to flap my arms and take off. After all, it is such happiness to flap your arms, to swim in the sky and smile," wrote Roman Sef. Only children dream of such things. Adults quickly stop thinking about the impossible and forget many things: how fun it is to play with a sunbeam, that Father Frost lives in every refrigerator, and that one should go fishing not to catch fish, but to look around and turn one’s head."
True, there are rare individuals among adults who, even when they grow up, remain children at heart. The poet Roman Sef was one of them. How else can you explain that he was interested in the very same questions that little "whys" ask their parents every day: where did the shadow go? Why did spring come in spring? Why is the wind sad?
Artist Vera Khlebnikova created a cloudless world of childhood for Roman Sef's poems. She filled every page with various small details, like little childhood "secrets" — water lilies and dragonflies, snowflakes and leaves, bees, frogs, and birds. Both the artist and the poet know perfectly well that it is precisely because of such details that childhood becomes happy.
Author: Roman Sef
Illustrations: Vera Khlebnikova
Pages: 224 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 165x255 mm
