Monday, December 10, 2007

The Ginger Bread Baby by Jan Brett

Hi! Today I read The Ginger Bread Baby by Jan Brett.

It's about a boy named Matti, his mother, his father and a Ginger Bread Baby. The mother pulls out a blue bowl, an old cook book, and cooking equipment. With her son Matti she bakes a ginger bread man. They roll the dough and shape the dough into a ginger bread man. They never forget to put ginger and spices in it. The cook book says the ginger bread man has to bake for 8 minutes. After 5 minutes, Matti can't wait. He opens the oven up and out pops not a ginger bread man, but a Ginger Bread Baby! He runs around all over the place, on the goats, on Matti's father, up a momma pig, a cat, a dog, and he ties two little girls braids into a knot together! The fox and the momma pig almost ate the Ginger Bread Baby, but he was too quick and fast to get eaten. All of a sudden the Ginger Bread Baby smelled a familiar smell. It was a ginger bread house with candy sprinkled all over it! He ran inside the ginger bread house not knowing it was a trap that Matti made. Right when the Ginger Bread Baby ran into the ginger bread house, Matti closed the doors and took him home. At the end of the book the Ginger Bread Baby says

"I'm the little Ginger Bread Baby, lucky as can be, to be living in this house that Matti made for me!"

I hope you like the story, Happy Trails!

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