Readers meet Chukovsky in childhood, memorizing his poems for life, but for many, this acquaintance ends there. Meanwhile, this beloved classic of children's literature was also a critic, translator, novelist, linguist, literary scholar, and memoirist. Chukovsky the translator gifted Russian readers with an entire library of English and American literature, while Chukovsky the researcher, fascinated by the psychology of children's speech, authored the famous book 'From Two to Five,' for which he received examples of children's word creation from all over the country.