The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Gingerbread Girl
Book Review: A hit with my three
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book to use with my kindergarten class, but I have shared it with the three cihldren I babysit for this summer (ages 4yrs.- boy, 6 and 8yrs.- girls). We have read this book A LOT. They have loved listening to it and have had a lot of discussion about comparisons to the Gingerread Boy. I llok forward to sharing it with my class. It is a great story that the children love.Book Review: A wonderful tale of a foxy cookie that outwitted a sly fox.
Summary: 5 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It reminded me of the style of children's book I had read to me as a child: ample text and nice large pictures. One can follow the story by listening to it without looking at the illustrations. And one can follow the story (after a brief introduction) by simply looking at the pictures and not reading the text. But if one both reads and looks at the pictures the book is all the more interesting.
The book is about a gingerbread cookie that a lonely old couple decides to make which runs off just as her older brother had done when he was baked. She bolts out of the oven and the couple's front door and past a bunch of neighbors finally to come in contact with the pesky fox that ate her older brother sometime in the past. She was determined to not let the fox outsmart her as he did to her brother. Read the book to find out what she does.
I was particularly impressed with the text of this book. It was very well done. Maybe there was a little too much "I'm the Gingerbread Girl" sprinkled throughout, but I can overlook that. I would have liked the book better if the illustrations had been a little more sophisticated. But that's just me. 5 stars!
Book Review: Clever Tale
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this story. It is a great follow up to the traditional gingerbread man story. I love how the gingerbread girl outsmarted the fox and resolved a problem for the lonely old couple who baked her. The language was not a problem. Since I was reading it to young children, I skipped over it.Book Review: Cute story; some negative language
Summary: 4 Stars
My five-year old daughter LOVES this book. They read it in her kindergarten class and she has read it over and over again. I just wish it didn't have the words "dumb" and "airhead" in it.Book Review: Empowering tale for Smart cookies! (Especially little GIRLS!)
Summary: 5 Stars
This was such a fun follow up to the tale of the doomed Gingerbread boy. It's about time someone outsmarted that darn fox. My girls giggled and loved the illustrations but the felt SO proud when in the end the little girl triumphed. What a fun retelling!!!