The Gingerbread Man by Karen Lee Schmidt

I have always heard about the book, The Gingerbread Man, but I have never actually read the book before. The gingerbread man believed the fox and ended up getting eaten because of it. While the gingerbread man deserved this, trickery and lying are not always good. Additionally, the fox uses trickery to lie to the gingerbread man in order to lure him in and eat him. If the boy would have listened to his grandma and kept the oven shut, the gingerbread man would have never escaped and none of this would have ever happened. I recommend this book because I think it teaches an important lesson about following directions and telling the truth. Overall, I think the gingerbread man got what he deserved for escaping from the little boy in the first place. At the same time, I felt mad at the boy because he did not listen to his grandma when she told him not to open the oven. When reading this book, I felt kind of angry because the gingerbread man was trying to escape from the little boy. The theme of the story is to be careful when trusting people and to always follow directions when given them by a trusted adult. As the gingerbread man gets closer to the fox, the fox grabs him and eats him up. The fox claims he could not hear what the gingerbread man was saying. The fox proceeds to ask where the gingerbread man is going.

When the wolf stops, the gingerbread man encounters a fox. Then when the bear stops to rest, the gingerbread man runs away from a wolf. When the farmers stop chasing him, the gingerbread man runs away from a bear.

He starts by running away from the boy and his grandparents, then when they stop, he starts to run away from three farmers. That is when the Gingerbread man escaped and started running away from everyone.

The little boy’s grandma told him not to open the oven, but the little boy’s curiosity got the best of him and he opened the oven to see if the gingerbread man looked as good as it smelled. The Gingerbread Man is about a Gingerbread man who escapes out of the oven after a little boy opens it.

The Gingerbread Man by Karen Lee Schmidt