The Gingerbread Girl Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Gingerbread Girl
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!!!Book Review: A fun twist, maybe a little long for pre-k, but they love it!
Summary: 4 Stars
My students really were enjoying the gingerbread boy stories, so I did a unit with the many different stories. They really enjoyed this one, though during the first reading (and maybe it was just that type of day) it felt a little long and one students said, "this is a long book." But they did all sit to hear it and really loved reading it and listening to it over and over on their own and at the listening center. I think I read one review that there was some forced rhyming, and it is somewhat true, but the book is still very good either way and very enjoyable for the children. It's a fun story with fun pictures and a fun twist at the end. Book Review: Language is questionable for young children
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book sight unseen...never again. It is an interesting book and I like the idea of a gingerbread girl but using words like "dumb" and other bad language does not fit with my philosophy of teaching young children.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!