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I think the Gingerbread Man is my favourite fairy tale to study. I usually spend the whole month of December reading and comparing different versions of the Gingerbread Man. We started on Monday this week, so from now until Christmas Break we will read a total of 19 Gingerbread Man books. My students always love them! They can't wait to see which one we'll read each day.

I love making a large Gingerbread House to keep track of the different books we read. The title cards on the side came from an old Gingerbread unit from Deanna Jump. The decorations are just enlarged clipart from KPM Doodles. I printed off covers of all the books and tape them to the top of the chart each day. Then after we read the story, we write down the characters (in order of appearance), the refrain (repeated part), and the ending. We include a :) or :( depending on the ending for the Gingerbread character!

Here are my favourite 20 versions of the Gingerbread Man. (Click the links below to find them on Amazon.ca through my affiliate link.):

1. The Gingerbread Man - retold by Catherine McCafferty 

2. The Gingerbread Girl - Lisa Campbell Ernst

3. The Gingerbread Boy - Richard Egielski 

4. The Gingerbread Cowboy - Janet Squires

5. The Gingerbread Bear - Robert Dennis

6. The Ninjabread Man - Katrina Charman

7. The Ninjabread Man -  C J Leigh

8. Gingerbread Man Superhero! - Dotti Enderle

9. Gingerbread Baby - Jan Brett

10. Keep Running, Gingerbread Man!: A Story About Keeping Active - Steve Smallman

11. The Sourdough Man: An Alaska Folktale - Cherie Stihler 

12. Kolobok: The Small Round Bun - Olha Tkachenko

13. The Musubi Man: Hawai'i's Gingerbread Man - Sandi Takayama 

14. Stop That Pickle! - Peter Armour

15. The Stinky Cheese Man - Jon Scieszka

16. The Library Gingerbread Man - Dotti Enderle

17. The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School - Laura Murray

18. Catch That Cookie! - Hallie Durand

19. The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School - Joan Holub

20. The Gingerbread Man 2: What Happened Later? - Stephen Dixon