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The Nutcracker.


The Nutcracker

Karen Kain Karen Kain, CC (born on March 28, 1951) is a Canadian ballet dancer.

Kain was born in Hamilton, Ontario. Her mother started her in ballet because she believed it would improve her daughter's posture, poise, and discipline.
 & Rajka Kupesic

Tundra Books

75 Sherbourne Street, 5th floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5A 2P9

088776696X $18.95 1-800-788-1074 www.tundrabooks.com

Misha and Marie are thrilled that Christmas is coming "Christmas Is Coming" is a nursery rhyme and Christmas carol (frequently sung as a round) with lyrics as follows:

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please put a penny in the old man's hat
 and there will be a party with dancing in the family barn. Marie receives a wooden nutcracker from her Uncle Nikolai as a present. On Christmas Eve, Misha and Marie are in bed and beset with nightmares. But then they are rescued by the Nutcracker Prince, swept up into the realm of the Snow Queen and come to the palace of the Sugar Plum A sugar plum is a piece of candy that is made of sugar and shaped in a small round or oval shape.

Sugar plums are widely associated with Christmas, through cultural phenomena such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker
 Fairy for a night of wonders. A magnificent addition to any family, school, or community library Christmas picturebook collection, "The Nutcracker" is a classic Christmas story that is beautifully retold re·told  
v.
Past tense and past participle of retell.
 by internationally renowned ballerina Karen Kain and marvelously illustrated by the museum quality artwork of Rajka Kupesic.
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Author:Bethany, Susan
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Date:Dec 1, 2005
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