Fairy tale · VoiceSmiths adaptation · 3:46
The Gingerbread Man
Run, run, as fast as you can! A cheeky gingerbread man escapes the oven and outruns everyone, until he meets a very polite fox. A bedtime retelling.
Narrator
The Gingerbread Man
The Little Old Woman
The Little Old Man
The Cow
The Horse
The Foxその他の言語 · 2か国語
このストーリーについて
The Gingerbread Man is an American and English folk tale, first printed as The Gingerbread Boy in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1875, and a cousin of other runaway-food stories like the English Johnny-Cake and the Russian Kolobok. In the traditional ending the fox eats him. This bedtime version lets him leap free, losing only a sugar button, and brings him home to the people who made him.
お話の教え
Boasting can lead you straight into trouble, and a stranger's sweet words are worth being careful about. The people who love you are worth running towards, not away from.
対象
Ages 2–6
読み聞かせのコツ
- Say the run, run, as fast as you can rhyme together every time; little ones learn it fast.
- Act out the fox's swim, tail, back, head and nose, and ask what the Gingerbread Man should do.
- Bake gingerbread together and let your child decorate a runaway of their own.
よくある質問
- What is the moral of The Gingerbread Man?
- Pride and boasting can trip you up, and you shouldn't trust someone just because they are being nice. The fox's good manners are part of his trick.
- Does the fox eat the Gingerbread Man?
- In the traditional story, yes: the fox offers a ride across the river and gobbles him up. In this bedtime retelling the fox only gets one sugar button, and the Gingerbread Man goes home.
- Where does the Gingerbread Man story come from?
- It was first printed as The Gingerbread Boy in the American children's magazine St. Nicholas in 1875. Similar runaway-food tales exist across Europe, including the English Johnny-Cake, the Norwegian pancake tale and the Russian Kolobok.
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