At first the boastful words of the Gingerbread Boy prove to be true. No one can catch him, neither the little old lady who baked him nor a host of other hungry characters, including a cow, a horse, a barn full of threshers, and a field full of mowers. Paul Galdone has portrayed the Gingerbread Boy's spirited dash from his pursuers with humor and action. And readers and listeners alike will be moved by the Gingerbread Boy's sad fate, when he goes the way of 'every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven.'
