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1. Merry Christmas to All
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/24/2016
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Santa Bear and True Love, Woodland Christmas

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2. A Woodland Advent - Day 24, The Night Before Christmas
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/23/2016
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Farewell, Woodland Nutcracker
For day 24 of Advent, Clara Bear makes her farewells to Prince Nutcracker and the Great Bear. The magical adventure with celestial creatures and woodland friends has come to an end, and Christmas morning awaits.

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3. A Woodland Advent - Day 23, Kindness
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/22/2016
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Woodland Mouse, Woodland Nutcracker
Sharing crumbs of kindness, for day 23 of Advent here are the woodland mice - and Mouse King - from Woodland Nutcracker.
Woodland Mice say "Thank you", Woodland Nutcracker

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4. A Woodland Advent - Day 22, Visitors
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/21/2016
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Snow Birds, Frances Tyrrell 2015

For day 22 of Woodland Advent, two visiting "snow birds".  And from Woodland Nutcracker, here are the guests arriving at the home of the Bear family.
Visitors, Woodland Nutcracker

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5. A Woodland Advent - Day 21, Wearing the Tartan
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/20/2016
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Drum Major, Woodland Nutcracker
For day 21 of Advent, here is the proud tartan-wearing Drum Major from Woodland Nutcracker, leading the parade of pipes and drums, dancers, skaters, performers and friends.

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6. A Woodland Advent - Day 20, Drums
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/19/2016
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Mouse Drums, Woodland Nutcracker
For day 20 of Woodland Advent, some small but mighty drummers from Woodland Nutcracker. (What tune are they marching to?  The Black Bear of course)

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7. A Woodland Advent - Day 19, Stars Above
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/18/2016
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The Milky Way, Woodland Christmas
Christmas is closer, the nights are colder, the stars are bright and clear - for the 19th day of Advent here is one of the "Milky Way" racoons (Eight Maids a Milking) from Woodland Christmas.

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8. A Woodland Advent - Day 18, Anticipation
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/17/2016
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Rabbit detail from "Woodland Santa", Frances Tyrrell 
For day 18 of Woodland Advent, a snow-bunny detail from a larger painting, Woodland Santa.  I look forward to sharing some of the product this will appear on next year.

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9. A Woodland Advent - Day 17, with Joyful Tread
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/16/2016
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Flamenco, Woodland Nutcracker
Dancing up a storm for Day 17 of Advent are the Spectacled Bears of Woodland Nutcracker.

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10. A Woodland Advent - Day 16, Prince Nutcracker
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/15/2016
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Prince Nutcracker, Woodland Nutcracker
For day 16 of Advent, the transformation scene from Woodland Nutcracker, where the carved nutcracker toy becomes "a live fur-and-claws bear...tall, and so handsome".

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11. A Woodland Advent - Day 15, Panda-monium
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/14/2016
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Pandas Juggling, Woodland Nutcracker
For the day 15 of Advent, here are the juggling pandas of Woodland Nutcracker making merry with a fine china tea service but dropping not a single piece.

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12. A Woodland Advent - Day 14, Dances with Foxes
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/13/2016
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Little Foxes, Woodland Christmas
For the fourteenth day of Advent,some dancing foxes from Woodland Christmas (pose inspired by Botticelli's 3 Graces).

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13. A Woodland Advent - Day 13, Lordly Leaping Moose
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/12/2016
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Leaping Moose, Woodland Christmas
For Day 13 of Advent, one lordly leaping Moose.  Were this the Twelve Days of Christmas the moose would have appeared on Day 10 with all nine of his companions. But that is far too many for one small Christmas tree bauble!
Ten Lords-a-Leaping, Woodland Christmas

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14. A Woodland Advent - Day 12, Ursa Major
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/11/2016
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Ursa Major, Woodland Nutcracker
Here for day 12 of Advent is Ursa Major, the Great Bear.  In Woodland Nutcracker Clara pays a visit to her starry palace in the far north.

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15. A Woodland Advent - Day 11, High Spirits
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/10/2016
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Cubs Hockey, Woodland Nutcracker
For the eleventh day of Advent, high-spirited bears of sport from Woodland Nutcracker.

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16. A Woodland Advent - Day 10, Merry Music
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/9/2016
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Piping Squirrel, Woodland Christmas
For the 10th day of Advent, a woodwind musician from the Woodlands.

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17. A Woodland Advent - Day 9, Grace and Style
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/8/2016
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Polar Ribbon Dancer, Woodland Nutcracker
Leaping for joy with her ribbon dance skills is polar bear Yuk Tuk, champion gymnast from Woodland Nutcracker.

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18. A Woodland Advent - Star of Wonder, Day 8
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/7/2016
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"Two Little Bears", Woodland Nutcracker
For the eighth day of Advent, the Bear twins of Woodland Nutcracker search the sky for the Great Bear, Ursa Major.

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19. A Woodland Advent - Day 6, St. Nicholas' Day
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/5/2016
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Cherub Bear, Woodland Nutcracker
For St. Nicholas' Day, a Woodland cherub bearing gifts.

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20. A Woodland Advent - Day 4, Rejoice and Be Merry
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/3/2016
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Round Reel of Bears, Woodland Nutcracker
"Rejoice and be merry, in songs and in mirth!", begins the old carol. It is the season for merry making, including dancing.  Here for the Fourth day of Advent is part of a vignette of the Bears of Woodland Nutcracker dancing a Round Reel of Eight.
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21. A Woodland Advent - Day 3, the Nutcracker
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/3/2016
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Clara Bear and Nutcracker
For the third day of Advent, the opening scene of Woodland Nutcracker with Clara Bear and the splendid carved Nutcracker bear. What a party it was!
Woodland Nutcracker is available in paperback and in hardcover, at TreasureSeekerStudio on Etsy.

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22. A Woodland Advent - Day 2, Two Turtle Doves
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/1/2016
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Two Turtle Doves, Woodland Christmas
"Two turtle doves" for the second day of Christmas - symbols of love, honesty and loyalty.

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23. A Woodland Advent - December 1
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 11/30/2016
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Santa Bear, Woodland Christmas
Skating merrily into Advent this year is Santa Bear, the "True Love" of my Woodland Christmas, Twelve Days of Christmas in the North Woods (Scholastic, 1995).
I was born in Northern Ontario and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and while I never became a hardy Canadian (cold hands, cold feet) the beauty of our northern winters never fails to inspire me. This year's Advent theme is Woodland, with a few visitors from afar.

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24. Fifth day of Advent - Five Gold Rings
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 12/5/2014
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Fifth day of Advent
Another detail, this time from Woodland Nutcracker.  "Creating a world" is the aspect of book illustration that artists love, making up convincing background details such as books on a bookshelf, a wreath on the door.  This is a Christmas wreath for the Bears' cottage (plus five gold rings for the Fifth day of Advent).

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25. " Woodland Nutcracker"
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By: Frances Tyrrell, on 10/30/2011
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Our beautiful WoodlandNutcracker book, which was chosen as The Children's Picture Book of the year in 1999 by the Canadian Book Review Annual, was orphaned earlier this year when the publisher went out of business. We are fortunate to have obtained the remaining books from the publisher's warehouse, boxes of mint-new copies full of Christmas magic and adventure.


As with the earlier Woodland Christmas, the story was inspired by many camping trips and cottage visits in Canada's boreal forest, "far away from highways and city lights", where one can travel for days and not meet another human being or even a camera-shy bear. In a story that parallels the Nutcracker ballet, Clara is given a wonderful carved Nutcracker Bear who transforms into the dashing Nutcracker Prince. After settling a midnight battle with the field mice with a Christmas Eve truce, giving the hungry mice food for their families, Clara and Nutcracker fly away to the Ice Palace of the Great Bear, Ursa Major.

At the Great Bear's palace an international cast of bears performs for Clara - juggling pandas and trapeze artist koalas and more, plus some of her dearest woodland friends. I have made two posters from the illustrations, grizzly bear Mother Ginger with her junior hockey team, and the polar bear Yuk Tuk dancing to the strains of the Russian Dance, pictured below. For the purposes of the poster I have placed a copy of the book in her gracefully extended paw! 2 Comments on " Woodland Nutcracker", last added: 11/1/2011

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