The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by German author Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. Illustrator and author of numerous of kids’ books, Oksana Ignaschenko, was born on Septemper 5, 1960 in Kiev. In 1984 she graduated from National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. The member of the National Union of Artists and the participant of international exhibitions. Oksana Ignaschenko's other books in English: The Ugly Duckling The Tinderbox Buzzy-Wuzzy Bu
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