A Scarily Fun New Year!

A cheerful and kind book by children's writer Evgenia Rusinova — about how magical characters from fairy tales and legends prepare for the New Year. Do only people celebrate the New Year? Not at all! Witches on Bald Mountain desperately try to decorate the tree. Ghosts are ready to celebrate the holiday in their own castle, but people show up and start taking over. A mermaid at the bottom of the sea weeps in sorrow that she has no snow. A bedroom monster, a goblin, a black cat, and Baba Yaga are lonely in an empty apartment… Before you are amusing stories about how New Year is celebrated by magical beings. At the end of the stories, the main characters have prepared recipes, games, crafts, and many fun ideas for the readers. The highlights of the book — A New Year book with dynamic and cheerful stories and bright, funny illustrations — Kind and humorous stories about how creatures from fairy tales, myths, and legends celebrate the New Year — After each story, advice from the hero on how to prepare for the holiday: a pie recipe from the witches, gifts from Baba Yaga, toys from the ghost, a good luck talisman from the black cat.