The farmer's wife bakes a gingerbread man to cure her loneliness. To her surprise, the gingerbread man comes to life and runs away from her. He taunts her and others who try to catch him as he flees, yelling "Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" Eventually, the gingerbread man comes to a pond and asks a fox for help crossing. But the fox tricks and eats the gingerbread man instead.

2. Once upon a time
there was a farmer
and his wife. They had
no children and she
became very lonely.
She decided she was
going to bake a
gingerbread man. She
mixed some dough
and cut out a large
gingerbread man.

3. After baking the gingerbread man, she no
longer felt lonely.Then much to her surprise,
the gingerbread man jumped off the cookie
sheet and ran around the house! The farmer’s
wife thought “This must be what it is like to
have children!”

4. When she went to pick up the gingerbread man, he yelled, “Run, run, as fast as you
can! You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man! I’m free, I’m free!” Then the
gingerbread man ran out of the house. The farmer’s wife chased after him, but he
was too fast. He ran out to the field where the farmer was working.

5. The gingerbread man kept
yelling, “Run, run, as fast
as you can! You can’t
catch me I’m the
gingerbread man! I’m free,
I’m free!” He ran past a
cow, a horse, and a hen.
They all tried to catch him,
but he was just too fast.

6. At last, the gingerbread man came to a pond where he had to stop. “Oh
me, oh my, what shall I do now?” he said. “I can’t get wet.” A fox came out
of the bushes and said, “Climb onto my back and I will give you a ride
across the pond.” When they reached the middle of the pond, the fox
lowered his back onto the water. “QUICK! Climb up onto my big nose! The
water is deeper here!” said the fox.

7. As the gingerbread man
quickly climbed the fox’s
nose, the fox said “Yum,
yum, look what I caught for
me! One gingerbread man,
and it’s free, it’s free!” In
one gulp, the fox gobbled
up the gingerbread man.

9. Resources
• Pictures from-
– Bedtime Stories Collection
– Dreamstimes.com
– Nancee Jean McClure
– Taleswithgigi.com
– Sayshappymums.com
– Uen.org
– Pinterest.com
• Sounds from-
– Soundbible.com