The Toymaker S Apprentice

A gorgeously imagined Nutcracker retelling from award-winning author making her middle-grade debut Stefan Drosselmeyer is a reluctant apprentice to his toymaker father until the day his world is turned upside down. His father is kidnapped and Stefan is enlisted by his mysterious cousin, Christian Drosselmeyer, to find a mythical nut to save a princess who has been turned into a wooden doll. Embarking on a wild adventure through Germany, Stefan must save Boldavia’s princess and his own father from the fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, both of whom have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family. Based on the original inspiration for the Nutcracker ballet, Sherri L. Smith brings the Nutcracker Prince to life in this fascinating journey into a world of toymaking, magical curses, clockmaking guilds, talking mice and erudite squirrels.

IN JUST ONE year, Jack Knob has gone from being a young man beginning to realize his dreams to one whose desperate thoughts are aimed at helping his struggling family. Max Prentice, who has had his eye on Jack for sometime, is a successful toy-maker and the owner of a toy store in Chicago. Yet, when Jack's desperate thoughts begin to turn into action, Max intervenes, shows Jack the error in his thinking, and hires Jack to be his apprentice. Indeed, all is going well, until illness confines Max to bed and results in his wife Mildred running the store. With little remorse, her first act is to fire Jack. To learn what happens to Jack, Mildred, and even Max, turn the knob and enter the shop.

The DAY OF THE DEPARTED – KAAjutsu was at peace for a long time with no natural or man-made hazards occurring. A day of a beautiful and sacred festival was emerging known as THE DAY OF the departed WAS UP AND RUNNING. Departing here means those who have passed away. And this day is there to own them all. Master Wu and his ninjas were driving as quickly as possible to reach the history museum. THE VEHICLE THEY WERE DRIVING WAS THE ULTRASONIC RADO BOUNTY WHICH WAS A TANK OF A VEHICLE. ALL OF THE NINJAS REACHED THE MUSEUM BOUGHT A FEW LANTERNS TO CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL. FROM THE MUSEUM ALL OF THEM SEPARATED AND WENT TO EACH THERE OWN PLACE TO HONOUR THEIR ANCESTORS. THIS DAY OF THE DEPATED WAS AN ASTONISHING ONE AS THE RAREST LUNAR ECLIPSE TO OCCUR WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE YING YANG ECLIPSE HELD AFTER EVERY 3456 YEARS. LLOYD WITH HIS MOTHER MISAKO WENT TO THE COORIIDOR OF ELDERS TO OWN HIS FATHER. KAI AND HIS SISTER NYA WENT TO THEIR OLD BLACKSMITH SHOP TO HONOUR THE LOSS OF THEIR MOTHER AND FATHER. MASTER WU WENT TO THE MONESTRY TO HONOUR HIS FATHER THE FIRST SPINJITZU FATHER. BUT ONE IS LEFT WHICH IS COAL BECAUSE HE WAS DISAPPEARING CONSTANTLY BECAUSE OF THE MAGIC OF THE ECLIPSE. IN REALITY, HE WAS A GHOST BECAUSE OF SOME OR OTHER PAST EVENTS. MASTER YANG A GHOST HIMSELF HAD NOW FORCED COAL TO MEET HIM AS HE WAS THE VERY REASON COLE WAS A GHOST IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH MADE COLE WONDER IF COULD IT BE A TRAP. UNFORTUNATELY, HE HAD NO CHOICE SO HE PROCEEDED TO REACH YANG ‘S LOCATION WHICH WAS THE TEMPLE OF AIRJUTSU. THERE YANG MADE COLE BELIEVE THAT IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT AND FORCED HIM TO BREAK A PARTICULAR POT IN ANGER WHICH UNLEASHED A FEW EVIL DEAD SOALS UPON THE NINJA. YANG EXCLAIMED TO THOSE SOALS TO DEFEAT THE NINJA WITH THEIR SPECIAL WEAPONS TO BECOME ALIVE AGAIN. SO THEY AGREED AND WENT OF TO THEIR TARGETS OF CHOICE. AT EACH OF THE DIFFERENT PLACES ARRIVED ONE OF THE SOALS TO DEFEAT THE NINJA. YANG WAS WITH COAL AND YANG WAS TRYING TO OPEN THE DEPATED REALM TO BECOME ALIVE HIMSELF FOR HE WAS ALSO A GHOST. AT KIA AND NYAS PLACE THE SOLE TRIED TO GET HOLD OF THEM BUT FAILED. AT MASTER WUS PLACE THE SOLE ALSO FAILED AND FINALLY WITH LLOYD ALSO THE SOLE MET THE SAME FAITH. NOW COLE WAS FIGHTING WITH YANG IN A BATTLE WHERE A SITE OF AN OPENING WAS SEEN. IT WAS THE DEPARTED REALM FROM WHICH A GHOST AFTER PASSING COULD BECOME MORTAL AGAIN. YANG SOUGHT TO SEEK THIS OPPORTUNITY AND EXPLAINED TO COLE THAT HE FINALLY WOULD BE RECOGNISED BUT AT THAT VERY MOMENT COLE MADE YANG REALIZE THAT YANG WAS WORTH IT AS HE HAD MADE AIRJITSU WHICH EVERYONE CHEERISH. THIS MAKES YANG REALIZE WHAT HE DID WAS WRONG SO HE INSISTS COLE PASS THROUGH THE PORTAL INSTEAD OF HIM SO THAT COLE BECOMES MORTAL. COLE HAD NO CHOICE SO HE DID IT AND BECAME MORTAL. THE CURSE OF TEMPLE WAS BROKEN. THE NINJA WERE ALL THERE WITH THEIR LANTERNS THEY WERE HAPPY TO SEE COLE AND THEY CELEBRATED AND PARTIED ALL NIGHT.

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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