Meeting a new book is like meeting a new person. Sympathy arises immediately, comes gradually or does not arise at all. In Bisset’s book “The Forgotten Birthday” there are wonderful characters, an atmosphere of kindness, fabulous serenity. The most interesting thing for me is to come up with drawings of what the tiger Rrrrr, the pig Icarus, Crococat, Annabelle the cow should look like ?.. The imagination works when you stand in line for bread, go on the subway, even in a dream, in my opinion. And so all your life, because one book replaces another.. This is the happiness of the illustrator. Only the echo of everyday thunderstorms penetrates his fairyland. The heroes of the books he created will stand as a wall and protect from harm. Chizhikov Victor Note: Natalia Shereshevskaya composed conversations between D. Bisset and the tiger Rrrrr. In these conversations there are excerpts from the story “The Journey of Uncle Tick-Tock” (see