UDC 655.26 BBK 76.1,11 P37 ISBN 978-5-9614-7303-2 Authors: Darya Plaksunova (text), Yulia Prohotskaya (illustrations) Proofreading by Zoya Skobelkin Design layout by Diana Trush Editor Svetlana Lipovitskaya When you open a new book, your nose immediately wants to smell it. What does a book smell like? Printing ink, creativity, new discoveries... A book can smell like anything! The authors, writer Darya Plaksunova and artist Yulia Prohotskaya, page by page tell how a book is "made" and born, what books were like many years ago and how unusual they can be now, how to go to a bookstore and give "paper" gifts, make friends with the library and create one at home, what an ex libris is and how to create one, how to keep an engaging reading journal, organize a book club, start a book blog and find new friends around the world!