A review by kikiandarrowsfishshelf
Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.0

I love my edition with its wonderful introduction and [a:Maurice Sendak|4489|Maurice Sendak|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1201028880p2/4489.jpg] illustrations. I love the music and the dancing that is the ballet. But there is something about this story that always creeps me out. It is not the many headed mouse king. No, its the whole ending bit. The story is about girl growing up, to a degree, except that it is rather strange because when she travel with her dream prince she dreams of a place any child would want. Than all of a sudden she is getting married to a little man. It's kinda freaky.

The ballet does it better.

But it show has some beautiful art.