The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

For this wonderful edition Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt, the »Granddame« of literature, has carefully reworked E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 fairy tale classic to make it more comprehensible for children today. And Sabine Friedrichson’s illustrations draw the children into the story in an instant.

The story: Little Marie is given a nutcracker, and her brother Fritz uses it to crack nuts, until the Nutcracker has lost all his teeth. Marie takes care of him and puts him up next to her brother’s army of toy soldiers. At night, the army comes to life and, led by the Nutcracker, faces an army of mice, led by the Mouse King. Marie saves the Nutcracker from being defeated. But the Nutcracker is really a cursed young man, who, in order to be released, has to defeat the Mouse King and win the love of a girl. So Marie follows the Nutcracker into his magic realm and becomes his happy princess.

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