The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone

The classic tale of the old couple, with no children of their own, who bake a gingerbread boy to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away and runs out the door past a cow, a horse, a group of threshers, mowers, etc.

All follow in hot pursuit until the gingerbread boy meets up with a wily fox. . . 

A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in award-winning illustrator Paul Galdone’s broadly humorous color wash drawings. 

Hardcover, 48 pages; Measures 8" x 8"