"The House with Magical Windows" (1959) is an engaging New Year’s fairy tale. Seryozha and Tania find themselves in a wonderful fairy-tale country full of unexpected meetings and magical events.
"What is this book about? About all of us and, very cautiously and warmly, about each of us separately. New Year’s Eve. Frosty trees are drawn on the glass, and through its shaggy silver branches you can faintly see a wide evening street. In tall houses, windows light up—one after another, like garlands of bulbs on a Christmas tree. Someone forgot a little sled by the gate. Two people hurry along the cobblestones and wave their hands. At the very end of the street, where the boulevard begins, everything merges into shaggy white fluffy… Snow is falling. In the room it smells of pine. A big Christmas tree stands in the corner, and its glass ornaments glint dimly."