The Gingerbread Boy: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids

What a joy this book is! The illustrations are magnificent and the age-old story well set out. My 4 year old found it a bit confounding as he is accustomed to the farm setting and he's not familiar with NYC (yet), but I loved the book and it will widen his horizons as he matures.

The book was in perfect condition. We love this traditional telling of the Gingerbread Boy!

I absolutely adore this book!! Every year this book is a hit with my preschoolers! I’m glad to say I finally own my own copy.

I love this book and have read it to my students every year. I have always wanted to own this book and as luck would have it, our school library copy went missing. I contacted you and found it once again. What I love most about this book are the beautiful illustrations of NYC..........it brings back my childhood as I grew up in Manhattan. I recommend this book to all.

The illustrations - fantastic; a similar, yet unique retelling of a clasic folktale

In a hilariously reinvented fairy tale, a modern New York couple decide that, since they have no children, the wife will make a gingerbread boy. Their Manhattan tenement fills with the sweet aroma until the gingerbread boy leaps from oven and out the window. Although they plead with him to come back, he throws back the traditional taunt: "Run run run as fast as you can. You can't catch me! I'm the Gingerbread Man." The two tumble down the fire escape in hot pursuit, and the chase begins. Along his journey, instead of meeting the usual assortment of barnyard animals and country workers, he encounters a city rat, construction workers, street musicians (he loses them in the subway), and a policeman on horseback who hollers "Stop in the name of the law!" Finally, at the foot of Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, he meets a fox who slyly offers to carry him across the fountain... to his traditional ending.This ingenious interpretation of the story retains the original version's high spirit, but expresses it in the context of a big-city world which is portrayed with a cunning eye for detail. From the bored expressions of commuters to the pair of men's briefs hanging on an alleyway clothesline, the flight of this edible urbanite provides plenty of wit to satisfy its young audience, while also amusing their parents.Not everyone will love this modern version, which alters the naive aesthetic of the traditional story, but readers who like this kind of innovation will especially enjoy Egielski's clever sophistication. My only quibble is that the young wife's above-the-knee skirt sometimes hikes a little high in the course of the pell-mell race. If this doesn't bother you, the story is definitely worth checking out.

I have been reading this book with Pre-K students for past few years and it quickly becomes a favorite. It's a funny book which they enjoy even more because it takes place in NYC, where we live. The illustrations are great, too!

Beautiful illustrations makes this version of the classic Gingerbread Boy wonderful. It's a great book for teachers to read to their students during the Christmas holidays and a must have for parents to buy for their children's library. Love this book!