Jan Brett's The Nutcracker Ballet Beneath the Stone Forest

Beneath the Stone Forest

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Jan Brett's The Nutcracker Ballet Beneath the Stone ForestJan Brett's striking illustrations and the Christmas classic The Nutcracker are a match made in picture book heaven. When Marie and her brother Fritz receive a special Christmas nutcracker from their uncle, Marie immediately feels something magical. "He looks like a real boy," she mused. "A real boy with a secret, who came from far away." This feeling is only the beginning of the epic adventure she goes on with the Nutcrackerinto the cabinet, through