A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas
This is no ordinary Nutcracker! This time, it's Fritz's story. The traditional Nutcracker tale gets turned on its head in this rollicking Christmas adventure, based on the hit musical A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas by the popular family music rock star Ralph Covert and playwright G. Riley Mills. Includes a bonus CD of songs from the musical, featuring a read-aloud track with the music and story woven together.
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Ralph Covert is a singer and songwriter who also writes plays, musicals, and books. His first children's album, Ralph's World (2001), was called "the best children's album of this or any year" by Billboard. He lives in Chicago.
G. Riley Mills is an award-winning playwright. He lives in Chicago.
Wilson Swain is the illustrator of The Castaway Pirates. He lives in Glendale, California.
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G. Riley Mills is an award-winning playwright. He lives in Chicago.
Wilson Swain is the illustrator of The Castaway Pirates. He lives in Glendale, California.
Kindergarten-Grade 4–This spin-off on the classic story is based on a musical play that is being staged in Chicago during the 2009 holiday season. The focus here is on Fritz, who accidentally releases the evil Mouse King from the video game where he had been trapped. With the help of the Nutcracker, a girl named Marie, he travels to Christmas Wood, a magical place where toys are readied for Christmas giving, and sends the Mouse King back to the video game where he belongs. An accompanying CD includes a track of the author reading the story to a musical background and five songs from the musical. Busy, heavily stylized acrylic, oil, and colored-pencil cartoons are appropriate to the text. This nutty tale may be delightful on stage, but it falls flat as a picture book.–Virginia Walter, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, CA END
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- PublisherChronicle Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0811861112
- ISBN 13 9780811861113
- BindingNovelty Book
- Number of pages40
- IllustratorSwain Wilson
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