Gingerbread Baby

Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby is not about to get eaten in this delicious twist on a favorite Christmastime tale

It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbread Bay. He leads Matti's mother and father, the dog and the cat, and a whole colorful cast of characters on a rollicking chase through the village and into the forest, staying just out of reach, daring them to catch him along the way.

But Matti's not with them. He's at home in the borders making what turns out to be a gingerbread house into which the Gingerbread Baby runs. Only Matti knows he is safely inside. And readers will too when they look under the lift-the-flap gingerbread house at the end of the story, and there he is

Author: Jan Brett
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/04/1999
Pages: 32
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.31h x 11.34w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780399234446


Award: Bookseller's Choice - Winner
Award: Buckaroo Book Award - Nominee