How to catch a gingerbread man

Adam Wallace

Book - 2021

During story time the Gingerbread man comes alive, so the children make haste and quickly give chase but he runs too fast and is helped from a storybook cast.

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Subjects
Genres
Stories in rhyme
Humorous fiction
Picture books
Published
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Wonderland [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Adam Wallace (author)
Other Authors
Andy Elkerton (illustrator)
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Audience
Ages 4-8.
Grades 2-3.
ISBN
9781728209357
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

The titular cookie runs off the page at a bookstore storytime, pursued by young listeners and literary characters. Following on 13 previous How To Catch… escapades, Wallace supplies sometimes-tortured doggerel and Elkerton, a set of helter-skelter cartoon scenes. Here the insouciant narrator scampers through aisles, avoiding a series of elaborate snares set by the racially diverse young storytime audience with help from some classic figures: "Alice and her mad-hat friends, / as a gift for my unbirthday, / helped guide me through the walls of shelves-- / now I'm bound to find my way." The literary helpers don't look like their conventional or Disney counterparts in the illustrations, but all are clearly identified by at least a broad hint or visual cue, like the unnamed "wizard" who swoops in on a broom to knock over a tower labeled "Frogwarts." Along with playing a bit fast and loose with details ("Perhaps the boy with the magic beans / saved me with his cow…") the author discards his original's lip-smacking climax to have the errant snack circling back at last to his book for a comfier sort of happily-ever-after. A brisk if bland offering for series fans, but cleverer metafictive romps abound. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.