Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of
fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and
caricaturist.
Renate Raecke has been adapting and translating children's books
for more than 25 years.
Yana Sedova was born in Moscow. The Snow Queen, her first book in
English, is published by minedition
Anthea Bell is the recipient of the Schlegel Tieck Prize for
translation from German, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and
the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize in 2002 for the translation of W. G.
Sebald's Austerlitz, and the 2003 Austrian State Prize for Literary
Translation.
"Illustrated with rich, painterly precision and dreamlike details
that echo the story's shifts from reality to fantasy ... A
gorgeously made edition." -- Virginia Walter, UCLA Graduate School
of Education and Information Studies
"Raecke impressively adapts Hoffmann's original story of the
Nutcracker, using evocative yet accessible language to bring the
story to a picture book audience ... full of intriguing images that
readers will want to study closely. Raecke leaves readers with
Marie's realization that 'the most truly marvelous things may be
seenif only people choose to look,' a message worth remembering
throughout the year." -- Publishers Weekly
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