Customer Reviews

The Gingerbread Man (Picture Book Classics)

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This adorable book is wonderfully written and the pictures are very cute. I would recommend this book to children over 18mo. This is the one where the Gingerbread man is made in the oven by a little old lady who wanted a child and it ran away and in the end it gets eaten up by a fox who was having the gingerbread trust him to get across the river. I highly recommend this book. My husband was more excited about this bk when it came in the mail,than our daughter because you really don't see this version around anymore.

The book is a nice quality and I was pleased with the illustrations. My only gripe is that I was a little disturbed by the last page where it actually shows multiple pictures of the fox eating the gingerbread boy. I know that's how the story ends and certainly didn't expect that to change, but in the version of the book I had as a kid it didn't actually show the fox eating the boy. I know I shouldn't take the story too seriously and I really try not to be an overprotective mother, but it was a little tough explaining the visual dismemberment of the boy to my 3-year-old son.

I was looking everywhere for the classic book that I read as a child about the gingerbread man. I finally found this one and it is wonderful. My son loves it! Any child's collection is not complete without this.

I bought this book for my grandaughter about 18 mounths ago. It was her favorite book at our house for a very long time. Now I am ordering it for 3 of my great nephews. The book is delightful. The time honored version is printed on quality paper, nicely bound and beautifully illustrated. I highly recommend it.

The book was better than expected. It's large enough to interest the little folks I bought it for. It was sent promptly.