Customer Reviews

The Gingerbread Man (Easy-to-Read Folktales)

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My 3 year old loves this book. The illustrations are funny at the end of the story where the gingerbread man is actually "yelling" to the fox. I bought this as party favors for his birthday party. P.s. this story starts differently than the original. It does not talk about a woman who wanted a child so badly.... instead it just starts out that there was a man, a woman and a child ....

The version of the Gingerbread Man is good for first grade readers. The gingerbread man runs away from the little boy, the old woman and man, the farmers, a bear, a wolf and meets a fox at the end who just eats him up on the path - there is no crossing the river at the end. It's a good book for the price, and great for a beginner reader.

This version of the Gingerbread man is pretty close to what I remember as a child. At some points it seems a bit repetitious but I believe that the original was as well. Its a fun story for a snow day, when you are home baking cookies.

I love this version of the Gingerbread Man. The wording is set up for easy characterizations, allowing the story to come to life. The illustrations cover the entire page too.

I read this book over and over to my nursery preschool class, and they never got tired of it. With each reading, they seemed more engaged and began to say the phrases right along with me.

There are so many choices for the Gingerbread Man tale but this one was particularly good. I like the pictures and it is very readable for young children with few sentences per page.

It's a good 'get them to bed' book with a well-known and loved story. The illustrations are cute and it is an easy read for an early reader.

My 5 year old has a version of this story in one of his school textbooks & since he liked it so much I thought I would buy him a copy. I chose this one based upon the reviews & low price, despite my initial feeling that the cover design looked cheesy. First the illustrations are some of the worst that I've seen. The story line is too straight forward, nondescript with very little embellishment. I think one reviewer said "repetitive". I agree with that. The original story that we've read had vivid details and better showed some of the attitudes that the characters exhibited, which made for great discussions about the gingerbread man's arrogance & naivety etc. Nothing profound (it's not War & Peace after all!) but I believe that great stories can lead to great discussions even if it is a fairy tale. We were disappointed with this one.

Book was in great condition when I received it. Perfect fit for my Gingerbread unit for Kindergarten. This version of the Gingerbread Man is the classic story with great colorful pictures.

I loved this book so much when I was a kid that I wanted to share it with my nephew. It's easy-to-read because of the rhymes and the pictures are vibrant. Perhaps the best thing about buying this book again is that I finally get a chance to live out my "be on Reading Rainbow" dream by reviewing this product on Amazon!

My daughter specifically asked for this book because she read it at her preschool, so I bought it. I didn't realize that the ending was so 'tragic' but I guess that is just me being naive! This is still one of my daughter's favorites, so we read it every couple nights before bedtime. Great classic story.