Kostya + Masha = ? Almost fantastic chronicle of a partly tragic friendship

Every generation of writers again and again returns to the theme of the first love, again and again joins the polarity of the relationship of relations with the world through the first sense.
The stories of the readers about the young heroes of Sergei Ivanov have been appearing in periodicals for 15 years, now they have developed a book with a subtitle: "almost fantastic chronicle of partly tragic friendship.
... That Kostya feels invisible strength and is solved on all the exploits that "is customary to do in such cases. So Masha postpones textbooks and looks at his mysterious classmate in a new way. Then the parents will stand between them and one long-long summer ...
The author conducts heroes through many situations: funny and sad, very adults and as if completely childish, sometimes absolutely impossible. All this helps everyone better to understand himself, check out friendship and feelings, realize their interests, dreams and goals, make some important discoveries.
The story of the first love, a phantasmagoric and ridiculous, was highly appreciated by the youth jury of the All-Russian Prize "Babyur" and entered the short list of 2013. Meanwhile, she puts completely serious questions before the young reader: why do you need friendship? How not to get lost among labels and stereotypes when you completely confused in yourself? What is more important - career or love? ..
Illustrations for the book - the work of the young talented Moscow artist Ekaterina Golovanova