The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Written by Lisa Campbell Ernst, The Gingerbread Girl is a collection of 2 books starting with The Gingerbread Girl and ending with The Gingerbread Girl Goes. –Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OHĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Despite the forced rhyme of the protagonist's speech (I can leap past piggy/Like all of the others./This story will not end/Like that of my brother's!) and a couple of unnecessary remarks made by the fox ( Anyone could tell by looking at her that she was an airhead), the story provides enough amusement to make it appealing–but not a first purchase. Large, pleasantly appealing cartoon illustrations are set upon pale backgrounds of blue, mauve, tan, and green gingham.

However, by using a strand of her licorice-whip hair to lasso the hungry creature, the Gingerbread Girl proves that she is one sharp cookie who knows how to turn around a sticky situation. Shop our collection of Alibris Books Books online and get free shipping. Like her brother, this perky pastry, covered from head to toe in candies, bolts from the oven and outruns a farm family, a pig, an artist, a cow and her calf, a dog walker, and some children at recess–before jumping onto the same fox's back. The Gingerbread Girl by Ernst, Lisa Campbell. Buy Alibris Books The Gingerbread Girl - By Lisa Campbell Ernst in Canada at TheBay.

Kids wont be able to resist following her inside. PreSchool-Grade 2–Not as substantial a story as that of the unfortunate gingerbread boy, Ernst's confectionary tale is, nevertheless, entertaining. On the cover, the candy-studded Gingerbread Girl with licorice-whip hair stares boldly out at readers.

The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst