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Book List
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The Gingerbread Boy by
Richard EgielskiCall Number: Y 398 E
Publication Date: 1997
"A freshly baked gingerbread boy escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes his pursuers until he meets a clever fox."
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The Gingerbread Boy by
Paul GaldoneCall Number: Y 398 G
Publication Date: 1979
See if you can keep up with the Gingerbread Boy as he outruns a little old woman, a cow, and even a field full of mowers.
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The Gingerbread Man by
John A. RoweCall Number: Y 398 G
Publication Date: 1996
From the moment he jumps out of mother mouse's oven, the Gingerbread Man is on the run. He is faster than father mouse, faster than the mouse's children, even faster than the hare. If it weren't for a certain deep river and a crafty old fox, the naughty Gingerbread Man would still be running.
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The Gingerbread Man by
Carol JonesCall Number: Y 398 J
Publication Date: 2002
"A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a series of nursery rhyme characters who hope to eat him until meeting up with a clever fox. Includes recipe."
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Johnny-Cake by
Joseph JacobsCall Number: Y 398 J
Publication Date: 1933
"A Johnny Cake that leaped from the oven and outran in turn the farmer's son, the farmer and his wife, the well-diggers, the ditch-diggers, a bear and a wolf-only to meet disaster with the wily fox."
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Senorita Gordita by
Helen Ketteman; Will Terry (Illustrator)Call Number: Y 398 K
Publication Date: 2012
In this Tex-Mex retelling of The Little Gingerbread Man, Senorita Gordita--a little corn cake-- escapes from the frying pan and leads a merry chase. She runs through the desert boasting, "You'll never catch me!" while fleeing from a spider, a rattler, and other hungry creatures "with a flip, and a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip."
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The Runaway Tortilla by
Eric A. Kimmel; Randy Cecil (Illustrator)Call Number: Y 398 K
Publication Date: 2000
In Texas, Tia Lupe and Tio Jose make the best tortillas -- so light that the cowboys say they just might jump right off the griddle. One day, a tortilla does just that. The tortilla runs through the desert pursued by two horned toads, three donkeys, four jackrabbits, five rattlesnakes, and six buckaroos. She is finally outwitted by Senor Coyote in this Lone Star twist on the classic Gingerbread Man tale.
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Gingerbread Friends by
Jan BrettCall Number: YE BRE
Publication Date: 2008
"Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale."
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Gingerbread Baby by
Jan BrettCall Number: YE BRE
Publication Date: 1999
"A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man."
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The Gingerbread Girl by
Lisa Campbell ErnstCall Number: YE ERN
Publication Date: 2006
"Like her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy, who was eventually devoured by a fox, the Gingerbread Girl eludes the many people who would like to eat her but also has a plan to escape her sibling's fate."
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Ginger Bear by
Mini GreyCall Number: YE GRE
Publication Date: 2007
"Any child who loves cookies will enjoy this inventive tale of Ginger Bear, a cookie in the shape of a bear, who sets out to avoid being eaten."
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Tough Cookie by Edward HemingwayCall Number: YE HEM
Publication Date: 2018
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In this twist on The Gingerbread Boy, Cookie teams up with Fox to try to become sweeter and faster, before learning that there is a reason he is different."
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This Story in Compilations
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Previously by
Allan Ahlberg; Bruce Ingman (Illustrator)Call Number: YE AHL
Publication Date: 2007
The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. The Gingerbread Boy is the last story in the book.