Children's Fiction Christmas & Advent
Woodland Nutcracker
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1999
- Category
- Christmas & Advent, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781552631249
- Publish Date
- Oct 1999
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
It is Christmas Eve in the forest and bear cubs Clara and Peter have been busy all day helping their parents prepare for the festive night. Finally, it is time to open Grandpa's handmade gifts. There are dancing puppets on strings, colourful tin soldiers and, most splendid of all, a carved nutcracker bear.
When Clara can't sleep that night, she goes down to see the Nutcracker. Entering the moonlit living room she is astonished to find a battle between the field mice and the Nutcracker with his band of tin soldiers. As Clara calls a truce, the Nutcracker grows before her eyes into a real bear, takes her hand in his and leads her on a fantastic voyage.
Avril Tyrrell's spare and evocative prose remains true to the original Nutcracker story and Frances Tyrrell's gorgeous animals and woodland settings, full of stunning detail and vibrant colours, are the perfect finishing touch.
Visit Frances Tyrrell's personal website at:
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About the authors
AVRIL TYRRELL lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has collaborated with her daughter on several books, including Grandmother’s Tree.
Frances Tyrrell lives and works in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Her other books include Woodland Nutcracker (Key Porter) and Woodland Christmas (Scholastic Canada). She has been short-listed twice for the Governor General's Award for children's illustration.
