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The Story of a Nutcracker

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December 2015 Book of the Month.

What a lovely Christmas treat this book is, from the beautifully designed cover, to the Foreword by the translator Sarah Ardizzone all add to the richly dark, yet magical tale within. As you read the Foreword you realise this story has existed in different forms for centuries; the telling and re-telling of ’The Story of a Nutcracker' has almost taken on a life of its own. Alexandre Dumas has re-told E.T.A Hoffman’s 1816 ‘Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ and he in turn may have taken his inspiration from folk tales born in Eastern Europe. Dumas’s story is not a sugary sweet tale, it is slightly unnerving yet exciting, and full of strange and wondrous beings. As I discovered a story, within a story, within a story, and explored the wonder of Christmas past, then joined adventures to mysterious and spellbinding places, I relived the enchantment of childhood fairytales, that delivered a moral with a wicked little bite. This is a must for giving and sharing at any time of the year. ~ Liz Robinson

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