“Run! Run! Run!/Catch me if you can!/You can’t catch me!/I’m the Gingerbread Boy.” Urgh! Why didn’t Galdone use the rhyming word man? Of course, the cookie meets his end with the crafty fox. The tale’s simple direct refrain delights until the last word. The last two occupations will stump modern children. After the little old lady and the little old man, there is a cow, horse, threshers, and mowers. The cookie is pictured running off the page in the bottom right corner, giving the chase a directional movement from left to right, which follows the natural turning of pages. It has the best simple direct rhythms and the fastest-paced chase. My favorite traditional version is Paul Galdone’s, The Gingerbread Boy (Clarion, 1975).
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