The Nutcracker Story Book Set and Advent Calendar

Product Review

It’s a marriage of two classics: The Nutcracker and Advent calendars. Front cover flaps part like stage curtains to reveal 24 full-color illustrated story-books. Books are numbered, and like the peekaboo windows of Advent calendars, they’re meant to be opened and read, one per day, from December 1 until Christmas Eve. From a first glimpse of the Stahlbaum house (#1) to the duel between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King (#14) to the magical Sugar Plum Fairy (#20), the
board books retell the complete story. In addition, with their gold-thread loops and four different trim sizes, the jewel-like books are designed to be hung on the Christmas tree year after year

Product Features

Advent Calendar
It's a marriage of two classics: The Nutcracker and Advent calendars.
Front cover flaps part like stage curtains to reveal 24 full-color illustrated story-books.
Books are numbered, and like the peekaboo windows of Advent calendars, they're meant to be opened and read, one per day, from December 1 until Christmas Eve.
In addition, with their gold-thread loops and four different trim sizes, the jewel-like books are designed to be hung on the Christmas tree year after year

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Also known as Marie..., November 17, 2011

Sara Swanborn - See all my reviews

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I purchased this advent calendar for a friend who has a newborn daughter thinking that it would be a lovely holiday tradition for their family to share. I chose a Nutcracker calendar specifically because the baby's name is also Clara, so I was very disappointed to find that the heroine of this version of the Nutcracker story is named Marie, not Clara. Who's Marie?! The calendar looks really beautiful, but I will have to return it and find another version of the story with the correct name.

An heirloom we will always treasure!, March 1, 2012

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This purchase exceeded my expectations. We loved reading all of the tiny books (one each night) during the month of December, and my daughter loved hanging each one up on the tree each night (each book doubles as an ornament) When we packed it away, I felt sad, and can't wait until this December to open it and use it again (and again and again!) What a fantastic family tradition!

Lots of fun., January 6, 2012

Ronda B (Gaithersburg, MD) - See all my reviews

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Someone at work had a similar calendar for A Christmas Carol and I thought this would be a unique way to do Advent this year, and it was. Each day gives you a tiny snippet of the Nutcracker story. My only complaint was that the pockets where the little books came out of didn't have numbers. So if you had multiple books out, or chose to hang them on the tree (as they are also ornaments), you couldn't put them back in the same place. The numbers could have been in the inside of the pocket, behind the book. Not really a big issue since they don't have to be in any order, but it would have been nice to have that option.