The Gingerbread Girl

by Lisa Campbell Ernst

Book Overview

The lonely old woman and the lonely old man decide to bake a girl this time, but when they open the oven, she runs off like her brother did. Never fear, this smart cookie has a plan to outfox the fox. Will it work? Let's just say that the ending is sweet for everyone.

"Ernst's familiar art, here placed against gingham-check backgrounds, utilizes the oversize format to best advantage, with large characters leaping out of their frames. On the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525476679
• ISBN13: 9780525476672
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

Great new twist on an old story

The Gingerbread Girl is much smarter than her older brother. She's not about to end up as the fox's dessert. She fools everyone and comes out on top. A great twist to the old tale with a girl in charge!

Empowering tale for Smart cookies! (Especially little GIRLS!)

This was such a fun follow up to the tale of the doomed Gingerbread boy. It's about time someone outsmarted that darn fox. My girls giggled and loved the illustrations but the felt SO proud when in the end the little girl triumphed. What a fun retelling!!!

A wonderful tale of a foxy cookie that outwitted a sly fox.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It reminded me of the style of children's book I had read to me as a child: ample text and nice large pictures. One can follow the story by listening to it without looking at the illustrations. And one can follow the story (after a brief introduction) by simply looking at the pictures and not reading the text. But if one both reads and looks at the pictures the book is all the more interesting. The book is about a gingerbread cookie that a lonely old couple decides to make which runs off just as her older brother had done when he was baked. She bolts out of the oven and the couple's front door and past a bunch of neighbors finally to come in contact with the pesky fox that ate her older brother sometime in the past. She was determined to not let the fox outsmart her as he did to her brother. Read the book to find out what she does. I was particularly impressed with the text of this book. It was very well done. Maybe there was a little too much "I'm the Gingerbread Girl" sprinkled throughout, but I can overlook that. I would have liked the book better if the illustrations had been a little more sophisticated. But that's just me. 5 stars!

Kindergartners love it!

I always do a unit on the Gingerbread Man with my kindergartners and I'm always looking for a new spin on this story. The illustrations are colorful and we love the rhyme that the Gingerbread Girl says. The happy ending was also appreciated by the children.

The Gingerbread Gir

This is my new favorite version of the Gingerbread Man! It was a great way to finish up my gingerbread unit in my kindergarten class! A must have!