The Texas nutcracker / written by Jennifer Coleman ; illustrated by Wade Dillon.
Material type: TextPublisher: Gretna : Pelican Publishing Company, 2018Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781455623310
- 1455623318
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Children’s Holiday | Coleman Jennifer | Christmas | Available | 33111009366564 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Children’s Holiday | Coleman Jennifer | Christmas | Available | 33111009676236 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this Texas-themed retelling of the classic Nutcracker story, historical details blend with fiction and magic warps reality at Fort Davis. It's December 24, 1883 and Colonel Grierson has brought Centennia a nutcracker who looks just like a Texas soldier! When the clock strikes midnight the goose feather tree grows as she and the broken nutcracker are transported to a magical realm, where the Rattlesnake King attacks and the Bluebonnet Fairy invites her to a fabulous celebration. Dancing denizens of the Land of the Wildflowers entertain them before the nutcracker soldier tucks her under a cozy quilt. An author's note gives a bit of historical context to this charming version of a familiar holiday tale.
A version of the famous tale reset in Fort Davis, Texas, in 1883, in which young Centennia helps break the spell on her toy soldier nutcracker and watches it change into a handsome prince. Includes facts about Fort Davis.