01109    a2200181   4500001000700000020001800007040003200025100001800057245002400075250001300099260001300112300003300125362000900158520070300167650002600870650001600896650001500912124554  a9780899191638  cEscola Canadense de Niteroi  aGaldone, Paul10aThe gingerbread boy  a1st. ed.  aNew York  a40 p.c5 x 0.18 x 7.5 inches0 a1975  aThe 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, and ‘at last and at last he went the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven . . . He was all gone!’ A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdone’s broadly humorous color wash drawings. Of the eight editions of this well-known story now in print, this hilarious version is the most delectable.  4aChildren's Literature 4aFairy Tales 4aFolk Tales