Customer Reviews

The Gingerbread Man

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Run as fast as you can, and get this book! The illustrations are fantastic, and the rhythm and rhyming are far better than "The Ginger Bread Boy"! I have purchased copies of both, and my 3 year old enjoys this one MUCH more! This is a book that every child should have in their room! Even if the "Ginger Bread Man" does get eaten in the end, he is after all, just a cookie! This is a fun book to read to your children, and I highly recomend it!

Lovely illustrations and repeating, predictable text. The illustrations are "old fashioned" looking and were drawn in ink then colored with watercolors and gouache. A classic tale about a gingerbread cookie man that gets up and runs away when he is released from the oven and leads many on a long chase. My children want me to read this story over and over again! There are many versions of this story in print but we especially like this one. As a bonus, the recipe for gingerbread cookies is on the back cover.

I have read this book more than any other!! My children love to hear run run run as fast as you can.... that they chant with me! Great classic book!!

It would be difficult to collect, or for that matter, even find, all of the versions of this wonderful old folktale that first saw print in 1875. Not only are there numerous version, but there are dozens upon dozens of children's stories which draw their origin from the original; gingerbread girl, boy, cowboy, and on and on.

I can remember this story being read to me as a very young child....

Run! Run!
Fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm the Gingerbread Man!
I've run from a husband!
I've run from a wife!
I've run from a butcher
With a carving knife!
I've run from a cow,
And a muddy old sow,
And I'll run from you, too!
I can! I can!

The book being reviewed here is a delightful retelling of this tale by one of my favorite children's authors, Jim Aylesworth and has been illustrated by one of my favorite illustrators, Barbara McClintock. This team just does not get any better.

The rhythmic and progressive cadence of the story is simply fun to read, particularly if the reader hams it up a bit and reads it is a rather loud and enthusiastic voice.

The story is of course about an older couple who decide to bake a gingerbread man. After the little guy is made and baked, he jumps up with his taunt and takes off. The tale follows the mad run of the cheeky little guy until the...gulp....end!

Gingerbread has been around since the 15th century and we actually have documents showing that gingerbread "people" were served at the court of Elizabeth I as a novelty item. Gingerbread has always been one of my favorites.

The art work found in this wonderful book was executed by Barbara McClintock and she most certainly does herself proud here. The overall feelings and style she uses will remind the reader of a cross between Caldecott and Grandville and is appealing to both the child and the adult reader. For some more of her stuff check out Animal Fables from Aesop, you won't be sorry.

This has been a favorite of children for years and years now and I see no reason that it will not continue to be so for years into the future. It has a sort of timeless feeling about it and each generation seem to take to it. This version is certainly one of the better written and illustrated that has come out in quite a number of years.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks

The book is wonderful. This was my favorite childhood story and it brought back many pleasant memories. My husband and I are enjoying the book as much as our daughter. She also really loves the book and requests that we read the book several times a week. The illustration is wonderful and enhances an already great story.

This is a beautiful book with the most amazing illustrations you will find anywhere! Illustrations make or break a book for me, and this one does not disappoint. My daughter is almost 3 and wants to hear this story over and over, and I love to read it to her. She knows the rhymes by heart and likes to chant along with me when I read.

VERY highly recommended!!

I ordered the paper back and I received a tiny cardboard version of it. I ordered it to replace my nephew's teacher's book, since he decided it was a coloring book. I can't give his teacher this book, so I'm going to re-gift to to a different nephew for Christmas. I love that it comes with the recipe on the back, very cute.

As a teacher the Gingerbread stories make for fun reading as well as material for working with comparing and contrasting.

This version of The Gingerbread Man charmed my 3-4 year old class and would be a classic in any home children's library. The vocabulary and flow of language is magical with illustrations to stimulate the imagination. Children pick up the repetitions easily and repeat them from memory. You and your children will treasure this.

This is one of if not the most charming version of The Gingerbread Man. The pictures and story are my favorite version of this classic story.