Title: The Gingerbread Man
Genre: Traditional Literature
Author: Retold by, Catherine McCafferty
Awards: N/A
Age Group: Ages 4-6



Summary:
The Gingerbread man was about an older couple who didn't have any kids. The woman decided to bake her a child, so she baked a gingerbread man. After she baked him, so decorated him and he instantly came to life. Once he was alive, he ran away. On his run, he passed a cat, a snake,  and a goose, saying " You can run and run as fast as you can! You can't catch me, i'm the gingerbread man!" He out ran all of these animals until he came to the fox who out smarted the gingerbread man. The gingerbread man came to a river, and the fox told him he wouldn't be able to get across without his help. So the gingerbread man jumped on the foxes back, and when the water got higher, the fox told the gingerbread man to move to his head. Once the gingerbread man was on the foxes head, the water got even higher, so the fox told him to move to his nose. As soon as the gingerbread man moved up, the fox ate him and had a sweet lunch.

Teacher Evaluation:
This book is a dual language book, because the top is in English, and the bottom of the book is in Spanish. This means that it can be read to English Language Learners, and Spanish speakers in their native language. The arrogance of the cookie in the middle and through the end, is something that the teacher should address and show students that it isn't o.k. to act like that, and the end shows the cookie being eaten. The ending shows that by the cookie not listening to the authority figure, something bad happened. This can help children understand to  listen so that bad things do not happen to them.

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