Don't just read - read aloud! A treasure-trove of favourite tales chosen by Pie Corbett from around the world, each accompanied by an audio retelling by a professional storyteller including Pie Corbett, TaffyThomas and Xanthe Graham. This book gives children the perfect opportunity to read aloud, listen along, follow text, read together and do all the things they need to build reading, listening, speaking and comprehension skills! They'll meet gingerbread men, monkeys, magicians and more in this captivating collection, which comes with an audio CD. A matching Teacher's Book with CD-ROM is available and helps to celebrate oral storytelling, reading out loud, reading togetherand live literature.
This book is part of a book series called Pie Corbetts Storyteller .
This book is aimed at children in primary school.
There are 140 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2008 by Scholastic .
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, youll never catch me Im 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!
