It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbread Boy. 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!
I am the Gingerbread Baby,
Fresh from the pan.
If you want me,
Catch me if you can!
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.
Target Age: 4-8
hardcover:
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pub Date: October 04, 1999
0.42" H x 9.31" L x 11.34" W
33 pages
board book:
Pub Date: September 22, 2003
0.7" H x 5.0" L x 6.25" W
32 pages