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Hi, my name is Frederick and I’m going to talk about the Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence. The story starts out at World War 1, when the Germans and the English and many other countries fought. Lord of the Nutcracker Men is based on the English and Germans. Johnny’s family, his mom and dad, live in London. Johnny’s dad is the most precious toy maker in London and always brings toys for his precious little Johnny. But later, his father has to fight in the world war. When his father goes off to France, Johnny moves in with his aunt, and his mom is working to support the war. Every day, Johnny recieves a letter and a nutcracker soldier. He ends up with thousands of soldiers and plays with his best new friend. Later, in the middle of the war, Johnny is convinced that his play war controls the real war. In the beginning, Johnny was excited but now he’s scared and worried about his father.
I am very touched after I heard the summary of this book from you. This might be a good book for kids like you to read as they could think about or imagine how hard was the life during the Wars and how much kids of those generations suffered.
This sounds like a really interesting book. I might pick it up sometime. I’m really interested in WWI, so this might be a fun way to learn about it. Is this book sad? It looks really sad, but at the same time interesting. I hope I like it!
I loved Lord of the Nutcracker Men. It was really good, and helped me understand WWI from a kid’s eye view.
@19davi: It is not sad.
It’s not really sad, but it’s a mix of sad, happy, and suspenseful.
@19david, It is actually sad in the middle part of the book.
Hey! I’ve had that book checked out from the library for a long time and I couldn’t read it because of this really long and hard book I’m reading.but I can’t wait!
That seems like an interesting book to read. I’ll look into it.
@19ryan, It is, but I don’t want to spoil anything.