Description
Publisher: | Clarion |
Series: | |
Published: | 2006 |
Format: | Paperback |
Author: | Paul Galdone |
Illustrated by: | Paul Galdone |
Guide Reading Level(US): | |
Reading Recovery Level: | |
Dimensions: | 0.76 cms H x 32.26 cms L x 42.42 cms W |
Text type: | Fiction |
ISBN: | 9780618836864 |
"The classic tale of the old couple, with no children of their own, who bake a gingerbread boy to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away and runs out the door past a cow, a horse, a group of threshers, mowers, etc. All follow in hot pursuit until the gingerbread boy meets up with a wily fox, and 'at last and at last he went the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven . . . He was all gone!' A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdone's broadly humorous color wash drawings. Of the eight editions of this well-known story now in print, this hilarious version is the most delectable." |