For over a century, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann's fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" has never ceased to amaze ...

Originally unadorned and solely made for cracking nuts open, over the decades, these handy little implements were transformed into wooden toys often painted as soldiers. The Nutcracker ballet ...

"I have a really fun time putting it all together." "The Nutcracker" is a short story and ballet about a girl named Clara who receives a wooden nutcracker doll from her grandfather for Christmas.