The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker

This is our 4th of these story orchestra books. These have been such a good introduction for my kids to classical music and classic stories. Our kids have loved these since about 4 years old. They both recognize the music elsewhere when they hear it and can tell me the names of the composers. We also love the illustrations. Wonderful books! The books can wear if not taking care of. The music clips are perfect length to get an idea of the songs. Illustrations are cute. My kids are 6 and 7 and both enjoyed it a lot. My one sadness is that the illustrations were not in my opinion very reminiscent of the ballet. And that makes me a little sad because the sets and costuming are so beautiful. But that is a personal opinion and the illustrations are still very cute. We love these books so much! Well worth the purchase.

I gave a few of these books as Christmas gifts to my kids. They have been looking at the pages over and over, and of course they love playing the songs. The back of the book has lots of educational highlights about music theory. The illustrations are also beautiful. I think these would make a wonderful gift for any child.

Beautiful book with lovely music shorts from the Nutcracker. My grandson wants to hear this book over and over again. He loves pushing the button after we read the page. Lovely illustrations, too.

My 4 year old granddaughter liv6ed this book. We used it to introduce her to the ballet before we took her that night. She learned so much about types of music and dances for each kind. She has never put it away, even past Christmas. She recognized the different songs throughout the ballet.

Amazing book! Wonderful for kids of all ages and the music is beautiful. Illustrations are beautiful as well. Highly recommend!

Gorgeous illustrations, and so special and fun that it plays clips of the ballet music on each page. It’s fun for my toddler to follow along with the story and hear the music at the same time. She’s been enchanted since I took her to see the ballet in person last Christmas. We have several more of the books in this series and plan to purchase all of them. The only thing I will say is that the buttons are very difficult to operate, even an adult has to press pretty hard in a specific spot to get them to play, so that can be frustrating for my 2-year-old. Otherwise, we love them.

Great Introductory Book! Beautiful, fun and simple book to introduce the kid to the nutcracker. Love the drawings and music press button. A quick read to understand the basic line of the Nutcracker story. After reading this book, it generates enough interest to keep our 9 year old alert in the 2 hours nutcracker ballet. ✨ 🩰 🎄 ✨

Illustrations are lovely. Would recommend for a child over 3 years as it is difficult to press the notes in the story, particularly in the first few pages. Otherwise a nice introduction to the Nutcracker.

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My kids age 5 and 2+ girl love it so much! Beautiful music to listen at every scene of story. Definitely a great book to read~

Beautiful book to introduce younger readers to the joy of ballet. My niece loved the musical element and pressing the button. It's about 10 seconds of music so just enough to engage without being overwhelming. The only annoying thing is reading it again and again. A useful introduction to the story before seeing it on stage. Lovely illustrations. A successful purchase and will look to buy others.

buttons to play the music hard to push. you should really try strong. Other than that good concept

Libro extraordinario para iniciar a los niños en el mundo de la música y el ballet, a través de un hermosos cuento de Navidad. Lo súper recomiendo.