Lord of the Nutcracker Men | Lord of the Nutcracker Men (Readers Circle)

Lord of the Nutcracker Men | Lord of the Nutcracker Men (Readers Circle) | Iain Lawrence

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	• Lord of the Nutcracker Men (Readers Circle) Iain Lawrence Laurel Leaf, 2003 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The book I chose was called Lord of the Nutcracker Men. My Opinion of this book is that it was pretty good. I thought it was sad because so many people died. I am making this recommondation because I thought the book was really fun to read and it had a happy ending. If you like war books, this is the book for you. I think it's a really exciting book.
The book is about a boy named Johnny. His dad has to go off to war with France against Germany in World War One. The boy has to move to his Aunt's house because it's safer and his mother has to work and make things for the war. Johnny is stuck with his Aunt who is really mean and nice at the same time. In the book she calls him stupid and idiot and other mean things. Sometimes shes crying in his arms and hugging him. Every time Johnny would get a letter from his dad there would be a toy soilder with it that his dad carved for him. Johnny would set them up and battle with them. His soilders were real. In the book everytime Johnny had a battle the samething would happen in the real war. Johnny found this out later in the book. On one of the letters his father sent back it said on Christmas there was no fighting just singing and partying.
My favorite part in the book is when Johnny gets his toy soilders from his dad, I like that part because it's a really nice and happy part. My least favorite part is the war because so many people die. I don't like killing. In conclusion, I think this book was a really good book. It shows you how bad war really is. I think you should read this book.

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Lord of the Nutcracker Men

World War One has just broken out, and London is being bombed by Germany. It is World War One Europe, and the "Great War" has just broken out. Mr. Briggs has just been shipped to France, and Johnny is being sent to the countryside. This book is best for elementary-aged children.

This book really does realistically reflect what many children in England went through during World War One. Johnny was sent to the countryside to live with his aunt, which most good parents would probably do. Johnny receives letters from his father throughout the war, and receives little wooden toy soldiers that progressively reflect the hardships of war. The book is very realistic in that sense.

In the book, Mr. Briggs (Johnny's father) seems very enthusiastic about going to war, along with other residents in London. He is so enthusiastic that he is actually frustrated that he can't enlist because he is half and inch too short. This reflects how ... little the people knew about war. And, it is how the people did react at first.

And, it is very interesting how that Johnny begins to believe that the battles he performs with his toy soldiers determine real battles. Though he may be only ten years of age, it does seem pretty strange that he would believe in something like this. He believes it so much that he becomes extremely upset when the toy soldier-imitation of his father becomes mangled.

As said, this book is really best suited for elementary aged children. It has a fairly poor use of vocabulary, and the protagonist is only ten years of age. But, I really didn't like this book, and wouldn't recommend it to many people.

-=Bill L.=-

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Lord of the Nutcracker Men

Johnny is a ten year old boy growing up during a difficult time. His favorite pastime is
playing with the toy soldiers that his father, a popular toymaker in London makes for him.
One day he gets the terrible news that his father must leave their home and go fight in
World War I, and he must stay at his Aunt Ivy's house. As the war between the Allies and the
Central Powers intensify, Johnny's father sends him toy soildiers, and eventually makes one
of himself. Throughout the novel, Johnny plays intense battles with his friend Sarah, until one
day he realizes that the battles that he fights are the same as the battles that his father writes
about. He also finds the figure of his dad and thinks he can see the future. Johnny is tutored
by his teacher, Mr. Tuttle, and soon talks with a commander who has lost his mind. Finding out
that this person is supposed to be dead, Johnny seeks the answers of his life that is right
outside his window, until his father finally comes back home. Lord of the Nutcracker Men is a
fantastic novel by Iain Lawrence. It is a book that anyone will easily get caught up in reading.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men has an excellent plot that has numerous twists and will
keep anyone on edge. In the middle of the novel, Johnny sees a commander walking around
the trench where he plays with his toy soldiers. After the man mysteriously vanishes, Johnny
comes across a picture of him. The man, whose name is Murdoch, is supposedly dead.
Meanwhile, when Johnny is playing with his soldiers, he notices the toy soldier version of his
father has turned gray and pale, almost as if his life has been knocked out of him.
Remembering that all of the battles that he had fought were exactly like the ones his father fought,
Johnny is worried that something will happen to him or already has.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men is for those who like suspense, but is also for people who
like to read historical fiction. The novel takes place in the beginning of World War I, and has
a lot of information packed in the pages. In the early chapters of the book, Johnny is picked on
by a gang of bullies during Guy Fawkes day, a holiday celebrated by the English. Also,
his father is fighting on the war front in France, when on Christmas Day in 1914, a truce
occured between the Germans and the British. Even though the book has so many facts that
you might get lost on some parts, the story that tells how Johnny lives through the war is amazing.

The main character in Lord of the Nutcracker Men, Johnny, has the perfect character
traits. This ten-year old boy is highly intelligent, and hopes for his father to beat the odds against
the Germans. Johnny also speaks what he thinks, which sometimes gets him into deep trouble,
as when he says he sees Murdoch, a person who is supposed to be dead, and really isn't.
However, the number one trait that Johnny has is endurance. He uses this trait throughout
the novel to escape hardships, such as his dad fighting in France for such a long time, and
having to live with Aunt Ivy, who can be very stern. Johnny is a very special young boy.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence, is an excellent book that everyone should
read if they like action and suspense all in one. I rate this book a grand total of four stars out of
five.

A. Chappell

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Lord Of The Nutcracker Men (6-7)

Lord Of The Nutcracker Men starts with a boy named Johny. Johny is ten years old. On his eleventh birthday he gets a small army of nutcracker men from his dad. From that day on he gets nutcracker every day his dad comes back from work. Now he has a whole army of nutcrackers. Johny?s dad is going into the war but he?s a foot too short. But things go his way and he makes it through. Every time Johny?s dad sends a letter their is a nutcracker for him to add to his collection of nutcrackers. The war is interfering with england so Johny has to move to his aunts house but he would?nt have his mother with him. So he?s all by himself on the train going to hie aunts house that he never knew he existed.

I think you should read this book because it takes you through a young boys life with a da in the war, a mom indangered at england and a aunt that he did?nt know

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Lord Of The Nutcracker Men starts with a boy named Johnny. Johnny is ten years old. On his eleventh birthday he gets a small army of nutcracker men from his dad. In the book he acts out the war with them. This book was a boring book because you have to like war and know war to get what they are talking about. Some of the words were very hard to understand. If I were to recommends it to somebody they should be into war.

Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe, and all too soon Johnny?s father is swept up in the war to end all wars. He proudly enlists with his British countrymen to fight at the front in France. The war, though, is nothing like what any soldier or person at home expected.

The letters that arrive from Johnny?s dad reveal the ugly realities of combat ? and the soldiers he carves and encloses begin to bear its scars. Still, Johnny adds these soldiers to his armies of Huns, Tommies, and Frenchmen, engaging them in furious fights. But when these games seem to foretell his dad?s real battles, Johnny thinks he possesses godlike powers over his wooden men. He fears he controls his father?s fate, the lives of all the soldiers in no-man?s land, and the outcome of the war itself.

From the Hardcover edition.

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