This article *talks/speaks* about the project of Krylov Children's Library in Yaroslavl, which *is* titled “How a character was created. Watch and discuss”. This project contains the lessons about book illustrations. They are intended for children from 7 to 14 *years of* age *-s*. Different artists can represent the same book’s characters in different ways. A librarian and children together watch images from books and discuss them during a lesson. It can help children to understand a personage better. After these lessons children would be more interest*ed* in books and reading. There is a detailed description *for* one of *these* lessons, which is/was titled “Andersen. Tales of love”.