The gingerbread boy

Paul Galdone

Book - 2011

A folk tale classic by Paul Galdone, in a beautiful gift edition with gold foil accents. 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. With lively illustrations full of spunk and humor, this classic retelling takes readers on an adventure-packed ride with one of literature's most beloved characters.

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Subjects
Genres
Folklore
Fairy tales
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2011]
Language
English
Main Author
Paul Galdone (author)
Item Description
Originally published: New York : Seabury Press, 1975.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustration ; 21 cm
Audience
AD580L
ISBN
9780395287996
9780899191638
9780547599403
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Review by Booklist Review

Large, simple illustrations that emphasize the story's action make Galdone's work a particularly effective edition for the very young, while Cook's earth-toned, more dramatic presentation will appeal to the slightly older child. Both offer brisk retellings. For a change of pace, try Pomerantz' jauntily rhymed reworking of the story, which has Incisa's line-and-wash gingerbread boy coming home to stay for good with his grandmotherly creator.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Galdone has already proven many times over that he is perfectly at home with those traditional nursery tales that are still preschoolers' favorites, and his expressive, unassuming style just right for their very young audience. Here he takes us, with his runaway gingerbread hero, from the benign old couple's cottage through a country landscape that streaks by like the backdrop in a Western chase film. We must admit that his ogling threshers and mowers have less individual appeal than the typically Galdone-y loping cow, stuffed looking horse and ever-so-self-satisfied fox, but children will follow along breathlessly with every one of them right up to that last snip snap snip when the Gingerbread Boy goes ""the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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