Heinrich Hoffmann 33 min read

Poor sick Reinhold is carried off in a dream to the realm of King Nutcracker, a land of toys and sweets and Christmas wonder.

Heinrich Hoffmann's 1851 picture-book fantasy, by the author of 'Struwwelpeter,' is a charming German children's tale of a magical dream-journey. Whimsical, tender, illustrated period juvenile fantasy. Read it for a sweet Christmas dream-adventure from a beloved German storyteller.

In its time

Published in 1851, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

33 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).