Princess Pirlipat was a pretty baby, but the mouse queen turned her ugly. When the sons were caught, the mouse queen vowed that she’d take her revenge on Princess Pirlipat. The King asked his Court Watchmaker, who was also named Drosselmeier, to build some mousetraps to catch the mouse queen’s seven sons. The King was angry that the mouse took some of the food and wanted revenge. A mouse who claimed to be the queen of Mousolia demanded some food from the banquet as the Queen was preparing it. Year ago, there was a royal banquet given by the King and Queen who were the parents of Princess Pirlipat.
Drosselmeier repairs the Nutcracker and returns it to Marie, telling her the reason why nutcrackers look so strange and ugly, calling it The Tale of the Hard Nut. When Marie tries to tell her mother about the battle between the toys and the mice, her mother and the doctor think that she’s ill and confine her to her bed for a few days.
When Marie wakes up, she is in her own bed, and her mother tells her that she apparently put her arm through the glass door of the toy cabinet, cutting herself badly.
When Fritz is too rough with the nutcracker and breaks it, Marie takes care of it. Marie’s favorite present is a nutcracker that looks like an odd little man. Since then, I’ve read that explanation may vary, depending on whether the household is Catholic or Protestant.) The children receive many wonderful presents, including a toy castle from their godfather, Mr. A friend in Germany also explained that to me once because, in Germany, presents are supposedly brought by the Christ Child, not by Santa Claus. (The book explains that opening presents on Christmas Eve is a German tradition. In the beginning of the book, which is set in the 19th century, Marie and her brother Fritz, are opening their Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. In ballets and plays, the name of the heroine is often Clara, but in this picture book, as in the original story, the heroine’s name is Marie. Since then, it has been retold many times and in many different forms, including the famous ballet based on the story. This article gives more details about the original version of the story and different publications. Some places, including the back of this book note different publishing dates for the original story because it was published more than once during the 1810s, as part of different story collections. Hoffmann, in 1816, as the novella T he Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The reason for the two dates of this book is that the original Nutcracker story was written by a German writer, E.T.A. Hoffmann, retold by Anthea Bell, 1816, 1987.
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