Page 209 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

“We have to save the children,” was Mother Ginger’s prompt response. “We’ve got to get them home before...” Mother Ginger left the explanation drift away, since the children were standing right before them.
But Franz already knew, and Clara figured out, that the Hamelin children were becoming sweeter by the day, which normally would be a good thing. But it appeared that too much sweetness rotted the brain, or at least the spunk, both of which are needed for growing children. So, they really did need to save the children.
Which wasn’t going to be that easy, not with a Mad Mouse with a Nasty Nut on the loose.
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