Prairie Nutcracker

• 36 page, landscape (12"x9"), laminated hardcover children's book.
• Written by Mary Rintoul based on the popular Nutcracker ballet adaptation Prairie Nutcracker© performed biennially since its 2000 debut at the Fox Theatre in Hutchinson, Kansas.
• Full page watercolor Illustrations by Katie Flindall.

Synopsis: In December 1869, nine-year-old Laura MacGufie and her family arrive in Kansas from Boston, where her father will fulfill his military assignment. Little Laura is fraught with worry about the lonely life she perceives, never imagining what her new homeland will reveal.