Magic Mail. The Mail Opens at Midnight. Book 1

Have you tried to send a live bat by mail? No? And haven't you received a package with a reviving powder? And haven't you encountered huge transparent owls in the park? Then everything is ahead of you. 
As one of the... heroes of this fairy tale says, «in our country, there is no clear division between the magical and the non-magical world». And in our ordinary life, there are still places where only those who need to can end up. Thus, twelve-year-old Nikita finds himself in an extraordinary post office, where he becomes a courier flying on a metal Gander-Swan. There, he befriends a girl named Yanika and a boy named Marat. Along the way, he learns how to use living and dead water, encounters a flock of huts on chicken legs... And then he marvels: wow — an ordinary job at the post office! And all this — a week before New Year’s Eve. After reading this story, you will definitely be waiting eagerly for the continuation. Daria Gerasimova is well known as a children's writer and poet, a recipient of literary awards, but she is also primarily known as an artist with a very recognizable style. 
But in this book, she is the author of the text, while her daughter, artist Maria Oranovskaya, illustrated the «urban fairy tale». And that’s why the illustrations are as unusual as the events in the text.