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The toymaker's apprentice

Smith, Sherri L. (author.). Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822 Adaptation of (expression): Nussknacker und Mausekönig. (Added Author).

Summary: Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.

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  • ISBN: 0399252959 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780399252952 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: 384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2015]
Subject: Fairy tales
Kidnapping Fiction
Princesses Fiction
Apprentices Fiction
Toy making Fiction
Genre: Action and adventure fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Independence Branch J SMITH S (Text) 33126021012251 JFiction Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.
  • Baker & Taylor
    A sumptuously reimagined retelling of the Nutcracker story follows the experiences of a toymaker's reluctant apprentice, whose mysterious cousin invites him to track down a mythical nut called the "krakatook," which is the only thing that can break the Mouse Queen's curse. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
  • Penguin Putnam
    A gorgeously imagined Nutcracker retelling from award-winning author making her middle-grade debut

    Stefan Drosselmeyer is a reluctant apprentice to his toymaker father until the day his world is turned upside down. His father is kidnapped and Stefan is enlisted by his mysterious cousin, Christian Drosselmeyer, to find a mythical nut to save a princess who has been turned into a wooden doll. Embarking on a wild adventure through Germany, Stefan must save Boldavia’s princess and his own father from the fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, both of whom have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.   
     
    Based on the original inspiration for the Nutcracker ballet, Sherri L. Smith brings the Nutcracker Prince to life in this fascinating journey into a world of toymaking, magical curses, clockmaking guilds, talking mice and erudite squirrels.

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