The Gingerbread Man is a lively tale that follows the adventures of a runaway gingerbread man who comes to life and escapes from the oven. As he dashes away, he is pursued by various characters, including a hungry old woman, a cow, a horse, and a cunning fox. Each character tries to catch him, but he cleverly evades them with his speedy run and infectious catchphrase, "Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" Ultimately, the story culminates in a suspenseful encounter that teaches lessons about trust and cleverness. [Generated by language model - please report any problems].
This book features in the following series: Read It, Read It Readers, Read-It Readers-Folk Tales .
This book is aimed at children at US kindergarten-3rd grade.
This book has been graded for interest at 5-9 years.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2005 by Picture Window Books .
George Orwell (1903-1950) was born in Bihar, India and was a novelist, journalist, essayist and critic, whose imaginative and insightful works have found their place in the literary hall of fame. He is renowned for writing some of the best political satires and dystopian fiction of the 20th century and books like Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) are modern classics read and re-read by adults and children alike. His narrative non fiction includes nearly 500 essays, book reviews and journalistic pieces, as well as book-length works like Homage to Catalonia (1938), Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). Orwell features among the 50 greatest modern British writers.
This book contains the following story:
The Gingerbread Man
A childess woman bakes herself a gingerbread boy but when she opens the oven he escapes out of the house and down the street. The old woman runs after him as he cries, ‘Run, run as fast as you can, you’ll never catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man’. Several animals join the chase as the Gingerbread man looks good enough to eat, but none can catch him. Soon the Gingerbread Man comes to river which he cannot cross alone. A sly old fox offers to take him across and the Gingerbread Man climbs onto his tail, but as they cross the river the fox persuades him to jump onto his nose to avoid getting wet. Then the fox eats the Gingerbread Man all up. Yum!
