Jan Brett's The Nutcracker (New Ed.) winter Emily meets a big dog

Emily meets a big dog

Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy

is set in Norway and is inspired by her many trips to the Old Country to visit her husband’s family

to using up to nine runes for deeper insight into the past

a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent

Jan Brett's The Nutcracker (New Ed.) winter Emily meets a big dogJan Brett's striking illustrations and the Christmas classic The Nutcracker are a match made in picture book heaven. When Marie and her brother Fritz receive a special Christmas nutcracker from their uncle, Marie immediately feels something magical. "He looks like a real boy," she mused. "A real boy with a secret, who came from far away." This feeling is only the beginning of the epic adventure she goes on with the Nutcrackerinto the cabinet, through