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The nutcracker  Cover Image Book Book

The nutcracker / retold by Stephanie Spinner ; illustrated by Peter Malone.

Summary:

In this retelling of the original 1816 German story, Godfather Drosselmeier gives young Marie a nutcracker for Christmas, and she finds herself in a magical realm where she saves the nutcracker and sees him change into a handsome prince.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780375844645
  • Physical Description: unpaged : col. ill.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Based on the E.T.A. Hoffmann story.
Subject: Christmas > Fiction.
Fairy tales.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch CEL JP Spinn 31681002047934 PICTURE Checked out 12/11/2025

Stephanie Spinner is the author of many highly praised children’s books ranging from the picture books Alex the Parrot and It’s a Miracle! A Hanukkah Storybook and the Step-Up Classic Dracula to the middle-grade novel Aliens for Breakfast, and Quiver and Quicksilver, young adult retellings of myths.
 
Peter Malone has illustrated such classical works as Peter and the Wolf, The Magic Flute, At the Opera, The World of King Arthur and His Court, and The Adventures of Odysseus. His illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker and on British Royal Mail stamps.


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