Woodland Nutcracker by Avril Tyrrell
My rating: 4/5 cats
AND NOW IS THE TIME OF YEAR I FLOAT OLD CHRISTMAS REVIEWS TO COUNTDOWN TO BING BONG BING BONG!!
christmas in april!!
the lovely melki sent me a care package recently containing this book which is her culture’s version of the nutcracker story. and by “her culture,” i of course mean bears.
it is beautifully illustrated
and it tells the story of a lovely young bear named clara who is rewarded one christmas eve for her kindness towards some hungry mice by a nutcracker turned dreamy living bear who whisks her away to the palace of ursa major where she is treated to a series of performances by different bears from distant lands:
including this very special one:
there are also some pretty sweet raccoons
and some blue jays who don’t do anything overtly evil on the page, but you know they’re plotting and there’s probably a sequel about how they ruin everything for everyone.
blue jays aside, this is a really gorgeous book and i like it so much more than the boring old human version where it’s all twirling and leaping and possibly a little racist?
bears—they might eat you, but at least they’re not racist.
thank you for everything, melki!!! ♥
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