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Title details for How to Catch a Gingerbread Man by Adam Wallace - Available

How to Catch a Gingerbread Man

by Adam Wallace
Andy Elkerton
ebook
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A New York Times bestseller! From the NYT and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes a fantastical gingerbread man book that makes a funny gift for kids!

Do you have what it takes to catch the Gingerbread Man? The famous storybook character has magically come to life and leapt from the pages during story time! Follow along as the Gingerbread Man runs loose in a bookstore with the help of Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, Peter Rabbit, nursery rhyme characters, and more! If you set the right traps, you might...just might be able to catch this wily cookie and finish the fairy tale!

Filled with zany STEAM traps, a silly story, and fun illustrations, this hilarious picture book is the perfect read aloud for parents, educators, and kids ages 4-10!

When the storyteller starts to read, "Run, run, as fast as you can,"

I'm off in a start, and you'll have to be smart to catch me, the Gingerbread Man!

Also in the How to Catch Series:

  • How to Catch a Unicorn
  • How to Catch a Mermaid
  • How to Catch a Dragon
  • How to Catch a Yeti
  • How to Catch a Monster
  • and more!

    • Creators

    • Series

      How to Catch

    • Publisher

    • Release date

      August 3, 2021

    • Formats

      • Kindle Book

      • OverDrive Read

        • ISBN: 9781728254166
      Kindle restrictions

    • Languages

      • English

    • Levels

      • ATOS Level: 2.6
      • Lexile® Measure: 610
      • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
      • Text Difficulty: 0-2

    • Reviews

      • Kirkus

        August 15, 2021
        The titular cookie runs off the page at a bookstore storytime, pursued by young listeners and literary characters. Following on 13 previous How To Catch... escapades, Wallace supplies sometimes-tortured doggerel and Elkerton, a set of helter-skelter cartoon scenes. Here the insouciant narrator scampers through aisles, avoiding a series of elaborate snares set by the racially diverse young storytime audience with help from some classic figures: "Alice and her mad-hat friends, / as a gift for my unbirthday, / helped guide me through the walls of shelves-- / now I'm bound to find my way." The literary helpers don't look like their conventional or Disney counterparts in the illustrations, but all are clearly identified by at least a broad hint or visual cue, like the unnamed "wizard" who swoops in on a broom to knock over a tower labeled "Frogwarts." Along with playing a bit fast and loose with details ("Perhaps the boy with the magic beans / saved me with his cow...") the author discards his original's lip-smacking climax to have the errant snack circling back at last to his book for a comfier sort of happily-ever-after. A brisk if bland offering for series fans, but cleverer metafictive romps abound. (Picture book. 6-8)

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    Formats

    • Kindle Book
    • OverDrive Read
    Kindle restrictions

    subjects

    Languages

    • English

    Levels

    • ATOS Level:2.6
    • Lexile® Measure:610
    • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty:0-2

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