THE NUTCRACKER

By Shadow Play Inc.
Price $39.9
Age 0+

The Nutcracker from Shadow Play turns a classic fairy tale into a series of imagination-fueled adventures for the entire family. Central to these wonderful shared experiences are the captivating shadows kids cast on the wall simply by shining light onto the book's intricately-detailed silhouette cutouts. A startlingly vivid progression of shadow images unfolds, the visuals of which tell a story while spurring youngsters to creatively adorn the scenes with their own imaginative touches. A beautifully-written summary of the story appears on the inside of the package and can be enjoyably read verbatim but more often than not serves as a leaping-off point from which family members improvise their own playful twists. The tale can thus be revisited again and again, never the same way twice. Meanwhile, these ongoing positive experiences shift the concept of "lights out" into something the child fondly associates with warmth, comfort and familial bonding!