Magic Mail. The Mail Opens at Midnight. Book 1

Have you ever tried to send a live bat by mail? No? And haven’t received a package with a reviving powder? Have you not met enormous transparent owls in the park? Then you have everything ahead of you. As one of... the characters in this fairy tale says, "There’s no clear division between the magical and the non-magical world in our country." And there are still places in our ordinary life where only those who need and can go can find themselves. Thus, twelve-year-old Nikita ends up in an extraordinary post office, where he becomes a courier flying on a metal Goose-Swan. There he makes friends with a girl named Yanika and a boy named Marat. At the same time, he learns how to use living and dead waters, meets a flock of huts on chicken legs... And then he wonders: wow — just a regular job at the post office! And all this — a week before the New Year. After reading this story, you will definitely look forward to the continuation. Many know Darya Gerasimova as a children's writer and poet, a holder of literary awards; she is also known primarily as an artist with a very recognizable style. But in this book, she is the author of the text, while her daughter — the artist Maria Oranovskaya — illustrated the "urban fairy tale." And that's why the illustrations are as unusual as the events in the text.