Page 56 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

after them because that boy is a Nutcracker and I don’t like Nutcrackers – do you understand?” Reggie nodded his head. “Do you know why I don’t like Nutcrackers?”
Reggie looked at the magic nut, Krakatuk, and nodded his head again. “Because Nutcrackers crack Nuts.”
The Mouse Queen stroked Krakatuk and gave it the kiss she never gave her own son. “Then you know why you must go and destroy that boy?”
This time a very large tear rolled down Reggie’s nose until it quivered on the very pointiest point of his pointy nose. When he nodded again, the tear fell onto his shirt and made a dark wet star.
“Good,” the Mouse Queen said, and she patted Reggie’s head before kicking him back into the clock. “Now destroy that Nutcracker!”
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