title: The Nutcracker And The Mouse King
author:  E.T.A. Hoffmann 
description: Kindergarten-Grade 4This lavishly illustrated book features sweeping, theatrical watercolor spreads and elaborate borders that help to draw connections between the real-life action, Marie's dream, and the ballet itself. A brief introduction gives the background of the story's publication and its connection to the Tchaikovsky ballet. In comparison to the polished and stylish <i>Nutcracker</i> retold by John Cech (HarperBlessings, 2009), this lengthy version features more dialogueoccasionally stiltedand busier, larger illustrations.<i>Virginia Walter, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, CA</i> END
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  [DOVER BOOKS ON LITERATURE AND DRAMA](../Text/e9780486138961_fm01.html)  
  
  
  [Title Page](../Text/e9780486138961_tp01.html)  
  
  
  [Copyright Page](../Text/e9780486138961_cop01.html)  
  
  
  [INTRODUCTION](../Text/e9780486138961_fm03.html)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [THE GOLDEN FLOWER POT](../Text/e9780486138961_c01.html)  
  
  
  [AUTOMATA](../Text/e9780486138961_c02.html)  
  
  
  [A NEW YEAR’S EVE ADVENTURE](../Text/e9780486138961_c03.html)  
  
  
  [NUTCRACKER AND THE KING OF MICE](../Text/e9780486138961_c04.html)  
  
  
  [THE SAND-MAN](../Text/e9780486138961_c05.html)  
  
  
  [RATH KRESPEL](../Text/e9780486138961_c06.html)  
  
  
  [TOBIAS MARTIN, MASTER COOPER, AND HIS MEN](../Text/e9780486138961_c07.html)  
  
  
  [THE MINES OF FALUN](../Text/e9780486138961_c08.html)  
  
  
  [SIGNOR FORMICA](../Text/e9780486138961_c09.html)  
  
  
  [THE KING’S BETROTHED](../Text/e9780486138961_c10.html)  
  
  
  [A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF
  INTEREST](../Text/e9780486138961_bm01.html)  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  