These books are all the traditional story of the old couple, with no children to call their own, who bake a gingerbread cookie to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away, runs out the door, and the rest is history. Each has it’s owns charms!
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A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdone’s broadly humorous color wash drawings.
School Library Journal
Like her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy, who was eventually devoured by a fox, the Gingerbread Girl eludes the many people who would like to eat her but also has a plan to escape her sibling’s fate.
Infosoup
Follow the gingerbread man as he runs from the old woman, the old man, pig, cow, and horse, and meets a sly fox.
Infosoup
A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.
Infosoup
A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of animals until he meets a clever fox.
Infosoup
Catch Richard Scarry’s gingerbread man as he tears through this beloved Little Golden Book, originally published in 1953.
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Watch for more posts about the Gingerbread characters! They’ll be tagged #gingerbread.
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