Author/Illustrator: Karen Schmidt
Genre: Traditional Literature
Awards: None
Grade Level: PK-2
When a young boy opened the oven door after the old woman told him not to, a gingerbread man jumped out and began to run away as fast as he could. He surpassed the old man and woman as well as the young boy and began to encounter many others along the way. He outran three farmers, a bear, and a wolf but after encountering the fox, he outsmarted him and ate him all up.
As a teacher, I would definitely use this book because it is a fun, easy read that students will enjoy to chant along to once they realize the repetition in the book. It would be a great book to use for kindergartners in many different units. For reading, I would use this book to teach sequential events in a story. Students can easily go back to the book to see what happened next in the story. Another unit I can use this for is building a community in social studies. Students can create their own gingerbread man house and explain why they added different parts to their house. Once they are all done, students can create a community of all their houses to display.
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