Book #1
Gingerbread Baby
Written by Jan Brett
4 - 8
Reading
age
32
Page
count
34
Words
per page
Jan 1, 1999
Publication
date
Library Binding
$19.99
$18.99
Summary
Remember how the Gingerbread Boy is eaten by the fox? Well, not this Gingerbread Baby in a delicious twist to a favorite old 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!
Jan Brett's Gingerbread Series
Published from 1999 - 2016
3 books| Year | Title | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Gingerbread Baby | 32 |
| 2008 | Gingerbread Friends | 32 |
| 2016 | Gingerbread Christmas | 32 |
The Creative Behind the Books
Author & Illustrator
With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author illustrators of children’s books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, “I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I’m drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.”
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