In December 2022, the personal exhibition of the works signed by the artist Elena Leşcu was launched. The exhibition emphasized two new directions in the artist’s creation: easel and book graphics. The first direction is focused on the new form of transformation of sketches of illustrations for books to folk stories into oil paintings on canvas, and the second is the serie of plasticine illustrations, created on a paper or cardboard support. A special direction specific to Elena Leşcu’s creation is the illustration of didactic books. The artist is constantly looking for new formulas and plastic principles of organizing the space of books, experimenting with various traditional and non-traditional materials and techniques. The tendency to create illustrations for books with poems in two languages continued in the creation of plasticine illustrated books signed by plastic artist Elena Leşcu. We note one of the first editions of plasticine illustrated books, without precedent or other previous examples in the Republic of Moldova, of the book “My dear friend” by Raisa Plaiesu, published in Chisinau, at the “Print-Caro” printing house, 2022. The drawings that have served base later covered with plasticine turned into illustrations offered to be colored in the book «Брызги на носу»/ “Splatter on the nose” signed by Svetlana Bahrushina and edited in the same year, at the same printing house. In this case, if we know the task that the book graphic artist Elena Leşcu set for herself in the illustrations for the book “Prietenul meu drag”/ “My dear friend”, for little readers could be offered another possibility to color this book, namely by applying plasticine. The plastic effects created by using this non-specific material for book illustration develop children’s perception and imagination, encouraging them to create images from this material. This innovation proposed by the artist Elena Leşcu has already found continuation in her creation. The artist is working on the third book, creating plasticine illustrations, at the same time, offering master-class lessons to children how to wark in this technic.