The Gingerbread Boy (Paul Galdone Nursery Classic) reading books / Does he run off

/ Does he run off and hide

In a collegial direct address

And you get to play in the dirt

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The Gingerbread Boy (Paul Galdone Nursery Classic) reading books / Does he run off"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, and 'at last and at last he went the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven