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Folktale and Fairy Tale Resources in the CRC: Gingerbread Boy
This guide will connect you with the folktales, fairy tales, variants, and fractured versions of traditional tales from around the world.
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
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 SeƱorita Gordita, who swiftly escapes them all with a flip, a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip.
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