Folktale and Fairy Tale Resources in the CRC

A freshly baked gingerbread boy escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes his pursuers until he meets a clever fox

The Gingerbread Man scurries across the fields, challenging and outdistancing everyone until he meets his match in the sly old fox and fulfills every good cookie's destiny--to be eaten.

A freshly baked gingerbread cowboy escapes from the rancher's wife's kitchen and eludes his pursuers in this western United States version of the "Gingerbread Boy."

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

A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox

A gingerbread boy runs away from the woman who made him and from several other creatures who wish to eat him, but a clever fox proves his undoing

Retells the popular story about a boastful cookie that runs away from a group of hungry people and animals

A freshly baked musubi man escapes from the old woman's kitchen and eludes his pursuers in this Hawaiian version of the Gingerbread boy

When a gordita- a little corn cake- jumps out of the frying pan, the chase is on. Soon a whole crowd of hungry desert creatures is running after Señorita Gordita, who swiftly escapes them all with a flip, a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip.

A retelling of the traditional Norwegian tale about the adventures of a runaway pancake

In this version of "The Gingerbread Man," an ice cube runs away to sea hoping to grow as big as an iceberg and bump into boats

In this retelling of the Little Gingerbread Boy, the cookie is a rabbit, baked by a mother as a surprise for her daughter, and his adventures, with other rabbits as well as with the fox, have a happy ending when the mother makes a toy stuffed rabbit like him

Just before the Passover seder, a man baked from scraps of matzo dough escapes from the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets clever Mendel Fox

With the mischievous appeal of The Gingerbread Man, this rollicking wintery adventure features Snow Dude, a snowman who dashes into town on his snowboard and raises a ruckus. Full color.

When three potato latkes escape Rachel Bloom's frying pan on the first night of Hanukkah, everyone including the cantor, the rabbi, and the mayor joins in the chase

1 book, 1 large cookie cutter, 1 baking sheet, 1 rolling pin, 2 tart tins, 2 small cookie cutters, 1 fox paddle mask, 1 teacher's guide