nutcracker (choreographic work)

Tells how the Christensen brothers of Utah staged America's first full-length version of "The Nutcracker" during Christmas 1944 in San Francisco.

Ten-year-old Isabelle finds a creative way to use her talent for fashion design to help her older sister Jade, who is performing the role of Clara in the Nutcracker ballet.

Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year- old Allie goes with her grandfather to a performance of "The Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve, hears about the special day he had with her mother going to her first "Nutcracker, " and shares his loving memory of her.

"One Christmas Eve night, Clara enters the Four Realms. There she watches a ballet that tells her the story of how this mysterious world of sweets, snowflakes, flowers, and amusements came to be. Clara learns the Fourth Realm is unstable, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger. But when Clara goes on a mission to save the day, she finds that while the story was beautiful, it may not have been entirely true. It will be up to her to change the dancer's tale of the Realms . . . and find a happy ending"--Provided by publisher.

Being cast as Clara in the Nutcracker ballet is a dream come true for Georgie but when she finds herself sucked into the Nutcracker's world her dream becomes more real than she ever imagined.

Celebrate the magic of theater and The Nutcracker as seen through the eyes of a young girl and her grandmother in this gorgeous wordless picture book.