After the gingerbread boy ran away and was eaten by the fox, the lonely old woman and the lonely old man decided to bake a gingerbread girl to keep them company. While she was in the oven, all they could think about was if she was going to run away like her brother. The oven door wasn't even open all the way before the gingerbread girl took off running from the lonely old man and woman. Now, the little gingerbread girl knew she was smarter than her brother, so she out ran the farmers, a pig, a cow, a pack of dogs, and the school children. Within a short amount of time, the gingerbread girl ran right into the fox who was waiting patiently to eat her. She hopped right on the fox's back for a ride across the river as he tried harder and harder to get her to move towards his head so he could take a bite. Little did he know, the gingerbread girl was much smarter than her brother and wrapped his snout in her licorice hair. Hooray for the gingerbread girl! The lonely old man and the lonely old woman will never be lonely again.
I would use this in the classroom to help practice with characters, setting, and sequence of events. In this story the gingerbread girl passes a few different characters as she is running, so it would be a good opportunity for the students to sequence the events. This book could also be used to compare and contrast the story of the Gingerbread Boy if you read that to the class as well. A Venn Diagram would be a good idea to use to compare and contrast the two stories.
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