Title- Ginger Gread Baby

Author-Jan Brett

Genre- Fictional (Fantasy)
Summary- This Ginger Bread is adventurous and very hyperactive! He likes to make people chase after him and believes he can get away from anyone and anything possible! Matti a young child made the Gread for the holidays, but once he saw that he was causing trouble at home his mother and father got upset with him. Everyone chased the ginger bread around but no one could catch him, until Matti had a bright idea and decided to make a Ginger Bread house! With this trick he caught Gread and his whole town was out of trouble!

 
Review- This holiday book is great for Christmas spirit! I enjoyed the christmas illustrations and how the story unfolded. Ginger Breads are known to be happy, spirited and wild and this story tells children just who much fun ginger bread and ginger bread houses are!

Content Area Connection

• History- This holiday based story can be taught during a history lesson, students can learn about christmas and how ginger bread and ginger bread houses are symbolic to Christmas!