Two little girls, Ilyana and the mean, spoiled Mary Jane, want Noelle, the beautiful ballerina doll in the toy shop, but Noelle is selected by the Imperial Ballet Company to be the doll Clara finds under the Christmas tree in the "Nutcracker" ballet
With more than thirty million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author/illustrators of children’s books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.
Though Pamela Jane is the author of many books, Noelle of the Nutcracker was the first of her books for children.