The Nutcracker (Pixies, #3) (Scholastic Junior Classics) (Little Books)

by E.T.A. Hoffmann

D. Munro (Translator)

A little girl's devotion to her Christmas nutcracker is instrumental in breaking a spell imposed upon the nutcracker-prince by his enemies, the mice.

• ISBN10: 0192713795
• ISBN13: 9780192713797
• Publish Date: 4 November 1976 (first published 1 January 1816)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 23 June 2000
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Oxford University Press
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 80
• Language: English

Reviews

[cherryblossommj]

The illustrations to this new 2019 ETA Hoffman of The Nutcracker are vibrant and modern. Carly Gledhill had created an imaginary world worthy of pouring over intensely. However, the text is just ridiculously dumbed down. Certain classics are too lyrical to destroy the original and I find it very sad and disappointing to be so short and coarse in the verbiage and that destroys this little adorable book for me. I'd read it once, maybe pick it up at the library to borrow, but I wouldn't buy it for our keeper shelf with these words. The littlest of kiddos deserve better and can appreciate more, they do not need the over-simplification that this version portrays.

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