It's enough to have a lot of fantasy, be a hardworker and do what you really like to achieve reeeeeeally nice results :)
Skład Kulturalny (
http://ksiegarniapoznanska.pl/) in Galeria MM, Marcinkowskiego St. is a place mainly for children, but there's also plenty of books for the grown ups. Its owners made it a great place to visit and share their passion to books with everyone that wants to join them.
Workshops, meetings with authors, illustrators, travellers - everything colorful and interesting. Also a good place to organize a child's birthday.
We went there the last weekend to see how it all works. It was a good occasion to spend some time with Mrs. Elżbieta Krygowska Butlewska, popular illustrator of books for children:
So, how about meeting your favourite characters? Maybe Elmer the elephant? :)