How I was born

Katerina Janusz's book answers the question that every child always comes up with: how did I come into the world? Without falling into excessive allegory and physiology, the author talks about the fact that two people are needed to conceive a child: mom and dad. First, mom and dad get to know each other and in the end a child is born from their cells, which mom carries in her stomach for nine long months. Funny illustrations by Mervi Lindman bring the story to life. The book, which the Russian reader first learned about back in the first half of the 2000s, has stood the test of time and continues to help parents tell children about difficult things in a truthful and interesting way.

In short:

• For those who do not want to tell children that they were found in cabbage.

• A simple and visual illustration of where babies come from.

• One of the classic books of this genre. Verified by Russian readers.
• Euphemisms are used instead of the medical exact names of the genital organs.

For whom:

The book is intended for adults to read to children 4 years of age and older.

About the authors:

Katerina Janusz is a journalist, writer, specialist in the field of sexology and family relations. Born in Prague in 1964, at the age of ten she moved with her parents to Sweden. She began her career as a translator in a publishing house, and from the early 1980s began to write a regular column for the Expressen newspaper. Janusz's first book was published in 1993. She writes for teenagers and adults.

Melvi Lindman is a Finnish illustrator born in 1971. She was engaged in fashion design, worked in advertising, did illustrations for newspapers and textbooks.