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New York : Putnam's, c2008.
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Lonely Gingerbread Baby, having set out to find a friend, enters a bakery where he tries to talk to different cookies and other figures, but winds up leading a crowd back to his house on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale.
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LibraryThing member kfurnanz
Jan Brett's version of the story, includes recipe in the side-margins, Brett's artistic style
LibraryThing member maxi1
Even though he likes the house Mattie made for him, when Mattie goes out to play, the Gingerbread Baby gets lonely. He sets out to make new friends. He goes to a bakery but is sad when no one responds. He decides to take a nap and awakes to find a mouse nibbling on is pom-pom. On his run back home
The timeless illustrations in this story are highly detailed. Children will find the fold out pictures surprising. The Gingerbread Baby sings different rhyming chants that tell how he feels. I found these chants to have a soothing rhythm. I would recommend this story to parent who like to participate in backing activities with their children.
This story can be read to small children before community circle. Ask children to tell about a time a friend surprised them. The side boarders on each page include recipes for making cookies. I would use this story in math unit that introduces students to measuring. I would read this story and have students to write a descriptive sentence about a character or object in the book. Students can take turns reading their sentence and having classmates guess the character or object described.
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he is chased by hungry people and creatures. Gingerbread Baby makes it home safely and finds Mattie has created him a room full of gingerbread friends.The timeless illustrations in this story are highly detailed. Children will find the fold out pictures surprising. The Gingerbread Baby sings different rhyming chants that tell how he feels. I found these chants to have a soothing rhythm. I would recommend this story to parent who like to participate in backing activities with their children.
This story can be read to small children before community circle. Ask children to tell about a time a friend surprised them. The side boarders on each page include recipes for making cookies. I would use this story in math unit that introduces students to measuring. I would read this story and have students to write a descriptive sentence about a character or object in the book. Students can take turns reading their sentence and having classmates guess the character or object described.
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LibraryThing member lc136067
Gingerbread Friends is the story of a lonely Gingerbread Baby looking for friends. He rides a rooster to the town bakery on his quest. After being chased back to the safety of his home, he finds an entire gingerbread town. The last page in the book is a pop-up page and the recipe for gingerbread is
I immediately thought of another gingerbread tale, the Gingerbread Man. I remember when i was in forst grade and put on a play and i got to be the Gingerbread Man!
In the classroom, I would make gingerbread with the children. We would also use the story to discuss how to find new friends and how to be a good friend.
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included in the side panels of the illustrations.I immediately thought of another gingerbread tale, the Gingerbread Man. I remember when i was in forst grade and put on a play and i got to be the Gingerbread Man!
In the classroom, I would make gingerbread with the children. We would also use the story to discuss how to find new friends and how to be a good friend.
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LibraryThing member cbaughman524
Gingerbread friend is a story of a lonely gingerbread baby looking for friends. He rides a rooster to the town bakery on his quest. After being chased back to the safety of his home, he finds an entire gingerbread town. The last page of the book is a pop-up page and the recipe for gingerbread is
I thought the book was really fun and full of amazing pictures and color. I also thought the little gingerbread baby was so cute, and it was kinds sad what all trouble he went through to find a friend.
As a class room extension i would make gingerbread in the classroom with the children. I would use the story to discuss how to find friends and how to be a good friend.
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included in the side panels of the illustrations. I thought the book was really fun and full of amazing pictures and color. I also thought the little gingerbread baby was so cute, and it was kinds sad what all trouble he went through to find a friend.
As a class room extension i would make gingerbread in the classroom with the children. I would use the story to discuss how to find friends and how to be a good friend.
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LibraryThing member jessicaherrin83
I love Jan Brett’s illustrations. Her books are among our favorite picture and board books. I was excited to discover this new Gingerbread Friends book just in time for the holidays. Relating the adventures of the Gingerbread Baby, its story and illustrations are sure to delight children of all
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LibraryThing member darleneua
This book would be good for a second grade classroom. The students would love the ending. I would read this book around christmas time so we could make gingerbreak houses and relate that to the story.
LibraryThing member Katie20
This is a story about a Gingerbread baby who lived in a gingerbread house in his friend's Matties room. He was upset when Mattie would leave to skate and ski with his friends. He wanted to have friends of his own. The Gingerbread Baby slipped out the door and went to the village to find new
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friends. He finds a bakery. He asks many other gingerbreads and swans to be his friend but they are as still as can be. He sees a small door and enters. He falls asleep and wakes up to a mouse eating his shoe. He left and ran all the way home. He saw he had new friends and they played. Show Less
LibraryThing member MelanieRoss
This is a story about a Gingerbread Baby who lived happily in a gingerbread house in the bedroom of a little boy named Mattie; however, when Mattie would leave to spend time with his friends, Gingerbread Baby would get very lonely. One day, Gingerbread Baby decided to go to the village in hopes of
I would read this book to children in kindergarten and first grade. The best time to read this is during the Christmas holiday because it has to do with a gingerbread boy. It would also be a good book to read when emphasizing the importance of friendships and how sometimes making new friends can be difficult. One thing I loved about this book was that it included a receipe of how to make gingerbread men. Also, I thought this pictures were great because they were very colorful.
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finding a new friend. Once there, he saw a bakery and decided to go inside because he saw people in the window that were his size. He sang a song to them that had to do with becoming friends; however, they did not reply. Gingerbread Baby continued to approach people that were his size, but still no response. Then, he crawled into a hole where he fell asleep and then awoke to a mouse eating a marshmallow off of him. Gingerbread Baby decided that home was the best place for him; therefore, he ran out of the store, but was chased by the mouse, a cat, the baker, and the baker's wife. Along the path, other animals joined the chase until finally Gingerbread Baby ran inside his house. He then found a room full of new friends singing to him; he was thrilled.I would read this book to children in kindergarten and first grade. The best time to read this is during the Christmas holiday because it has to do with a gingerbread boy. It would also be a good book to read when emphasizing the importance of friendships and how sometimes making new friends can be difficult. One thing I loved about this book was that it included a receipe of how to make gingerbread men. Also, I thought this pictures were great because they were very colorful.
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LibraryThing member BNededog
Gingerbread Friends was a short, but cute book. It starts with a gingerbread baby wanting to find friends. He sets off one morning and heads to the village in seacrh of friends. He ends up finding a bakery, but every time he tried to introduce himself they would never talk back. He eventually gave
I liked this book because it had two different stories going on at the same time. On the big picture it was showing the story of the gingerbread baby, but on the edge of the pages it showed what Mattie, the gingerbread baby's creator, was doing also. I also liked how at the very and of the book it was engineered with a big pop-out of all the other gingerbread people. I believe that this book will catch the attention of younger kids and promote family involvement with the ingrediets of how to make gingerbread men.
An activity for the classroom would be for each student to have a blank piece of paper and draw what their own gingerbread baby would look like. Another activity would be for each student to write a short paragraph on how they met one of their friends and how they felt when they met them.
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up and flew into a hole his size. However, he woke up to a horrible sight of a mouse munching on one of his pom poms. He rushed out of the bakery back to his house. When he got home he began to cry because he never found any friends. Then all of the sudden he hears something in the distance and when he looks up he sees a trail of cupcakes leading up a ladder. When he climbed up the ladder he found a whole group of friends that Mattie, his creator, had made for him.I liked this book because it had two different stories going on at the same time. On the big picture it was showing the story of the gingerbread baby, but on the edge of the pages it showed what Mattie, the gingerbread baby's creator, was doing also. I also liked how at the very and of the book it was engineered with a big pop-out of all the other gingerbread people. I believe that this book will catch the attention of younger kids and promote family involvement with the ingrediets of how to make gingerbread men.
An activity for the classroom would be for each student to have a blank piece of paper and draw what their own gingerbread baby would look like. Another activity would be for each student to write a short paragraph on how they met one of their friends and how they felt when they met them.
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LibraryThing member TonyaJordan
Gingerbread friends is about a gingerbread baby who was on a mad search to find friends. He leaves the conforts of his home in the bedroom of Mattie, the little boy wo baked him, to see if he can find anyone to talk to. The gingerbread baby finds toys and objects, but nothing would talk back. He
I liked this low fantasy picture book because the illustrations are amazing. Very detailed pictures are sure to capture a childs attention. I think this book also teaches a valuable lesson about friends. I also like how it is about gingerbread houses and cookies, which is usually a Christmas project, but the author never mentions Christmas.
In the classroom I would share this book before making gingerbread cookies and allowing the children to create their own gingerbread baby. For older children, I would have the class write a story about making new friends.
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finally gives up and returns home to his gingerbread house where he finds many gingerbread friends to play with.I liked this low fantasy picture book because the illustrations are amazing. Very detailed pictures are sure to capture a childs attention. I think this book also teaches a valuable lesson about friends. I also like how it is about gingerbread houses and cookies, which is usually a Christmas project, but the author never mentions Christmas.
In the classroom I would share this book before making gingerbread cookies and allowing the children to create their own gingerbread baby. For older children, I would have the class write a story about making new friends.
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LibraryThing member StephanieWhite
Gingerbread Friends is the story of a lonely Gingerbread Baby looking for friends. He rides a rooster to the town bakery on his quest. After being chased back to the safety of his home, he finds an entire gingerbread town. The last page of the book is a pop-up page and the recipe for gingerbread is
I immediately thought of another gingerbread tale, The Gingerbread Man, which I used to begin the school year. I wonder how I could pair these two stories then expand to create a unit.
In the classroom, I would make gingerbread with the children. We would also use the story to discusss how to find new friends and how to be a good friend.
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included in the side panels of the illustrations.I immediately thought of another gingerbread tale, The Gingerbread Man, which I used to begin the school year. I wonder how I could pair these two stories then expand to create a unit.
In the classroom, I would make gingerbread with the children. We would also use the story to discusss how to find new friends and how to be a good friend.
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LibraryThing member bamabreezin4
The ending was happy and the illustrations were nice, but her writing has proven not to be my favorite.
LibraryThing member olive_mucho
The story ginger bread friends is about a baby gingerbread that wishes to have a friend. He goes around town looking for some one to play with. He finds many differnet things like a dog, cat and cookies in the bakery that do not move at all. Although, baby gingerbread baby does not find a friend he
I really enjoyed the story because, the baby wants to have friends and races around time to just play with some one. Just as I have when I was little. I used to travel around a small neighborhood in Germany and I could relate because when I got home my friends from class would be there.
I would use the story as a model to explain that friends will come and that children should be patient. I would also then touch basis on the virtues of life but, just slightly.
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finds his way home, and finds some gingerbread friends at home.I really enjoyed the story because, the baby wants to have friends and races around time to just play with some one. Just as I have when I was little. I used to travel around a small neighborhood in Germany and I could relate because when I got home my friends from class would be there.
I would use the story as a model to explain that friends will come and that children should be patient. I would also then touch basis on the virtues of life but, just slightly.
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LibraryThing member tas026
Jan Brett’s illustrations are great for children. I was excited to discover this new Gingerbread Friends book just in time for the holidays and I can totally read this book during the holidays. Relating the adventures of the Gingerbread Baby, its story and illustrations are sure to delight
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LibraryThing member Khp24
Jan Brett captures the experience of Gingerbread Baby's adventure to finding new friends. The illustrations portray the events of the story so that the experience is more real. The book is also a gateway for students to create their own gingerbread friends and retell the story.
LibraryThing member exc021
This book is about a little gingerbread baby is in search of a friend and sets out to search for one. While on the search the gingerbread boys gets in trouble by being almost eaten. However, a boy named mattie saves him and gives him a great gingerbread suprise: some gingerbread friends.
LibraryThing member cakebaker
This story continues the story of the cookie who was introduced in Gingerbread Baby. He lives with a boy named Mattie, who provides him with a toys, sweets, and even a gingerbread house to live in. But Mattie can not be with the Baby all the time, so he gets lonely. One day, he sets off on a
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rooster drawn carriage to look for friends. He does not find them; instead he gets chased. However, he ends with a sweet surprise. Show Less
LibraryThing member Bettymz
This is a story about a Gingerbread baby who lived in a gingerbread house in his friend's Matties room. He was upset when Mattie would leave to skate and ski with his friends. He wanted to have friends of his own. The Gingerbread Baby slipped out the door and went to the village to find new
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friends. He finds a bakery. He asks many other gingerbreads and swans to be his friend but they are as still as can be. He sees a small door and enters. He falls asleep and wakes up to a mouse eating his shoe. He left and ran all the way home. He saw he had new friends and they played. Show Less
LibraryThing member Whisper1
This is a lovely book to read during the holiday season. The Gingerbread boy grows weary of his secure life. Leaving home in pursuit of friendship, the gingerbread boy discovers danger and peril. Chased by a fox, a dog and a host of other non friendly creatures, Gingerbread boy learns the lesson
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LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
Once again the best part of Brett's book, imo, is the borders. This sequel has a recipe for gingerbread cookies 'hidden' there. The story and the main illustrations are fine but not amazing.
LibraryThing member Mimarler
Gingerbread is lonely and seeks out some friends. He encounters possible friends and dangers along the way but eventually finds a lot of friends just like him.
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
That mischievous cookie, Gingerbread Baby, whose adventures began in the eponymous picture-book, Gingerbread Baby, returns in this second story devoted to his adventures. Although happy to live in the gingerbread house his creator Matti had made for him in the previous book, our hero finds himself
A sweet sequel to Gingerbread Baby's earlier adventure, Gingerbread Friends features a rhyming refrain, in which our cookie-hero continually asks the inanimate delectables he meets if they will be his friend, that put me in mind of the text of the more traditional tale, The Gingerbread Man, upon which these books are based. The artwork, as is always the case with Brett, is colorful and ornate, with beautiful details throughout. I appreciated the parallel narrative involving Matti and his baking, that is depicted solely in the side-panels of the illustrations. I also enjoyed the huge fold-out page at the end, in which Gingerbread Baby discovers what Matti has made for him. Recommended to all Jan Brett fans, and to anyone who has read and enjoyed Gingerbread Baby's first book.
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lonely from time to time, and sets out to find others like him. His quest leads him nowhere, and he returns home dispirited, only to find that in his absence Matti has provided him with just what he needs.A sweet sequel to Gingerbread Baby's earlier adventure, Gingerbread Friends features a rhyming refrain, in which our cookie-hero continually asks the inanimate delectables he meets if they will be his friend, that put me in mind of the text of the more traditional tale, The Gingerbread Man, upon which these books are based. The artwork, as is always the case with Brett, is colorful and ornate, with beautiful details throughout. I appreciated the parallel narrative involving Matti and his baking, that is depicted solely in the side-panels of the illustrations. I also enjoyed the huge fold-out page at the end, in which Gingerbread Baby discovers what Matti has made for him. Recommended to all Jan Brett fans, and to anyone who has read and enjoyed Gingerbread Baby's first book.
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