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Whitman Publishing Company, 1960. Hard Cover. Ill.: Winship, Florence Sarah. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Text block loose from binding, shelf wear, ink name on front free endpaper. Pages clean & unmarked. 31 pages. Color illustrations throughout text. "The Gingerbread Boy (also known as The Gingerbread Man) is the anthropomorphic protagonist in a fairy tale about a cookie's flight from various pursuers and his eventual demise between the jaws of a fox. The Gingerbread Boy makes his first print appearance in the May 1875 issue of St. Nicholas Magazine in a cumulative tale which, like 'The Little Red Hen', depends on rhythm and repetition for its effect with one event following hard upon another until the climax is reached. Tales of runaway comestibles have been noted worldwide with pancakes predominating in 19th-century Europe. A gingerbread boy as hero is a uniquely American contribution to the tale type. Modern twists on the tale include a gingerbread cowboy in a Wild West setting and a gingerbread girl who outwits the fox." -- Wikipedia.

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