![]() Egielski's Gingerbread Boy has a Gumby-like flexibility, while the human characters sport exaggerated grins, knobby knees and big hands and shoes. ![]() The cookie eludes a rat, construction workers and a policeman, but he's finally outfoxed in the Central Park Zoo. You can't catch me! I'm the Gingerbread Man."" A chase ensues-down a fire escape, across a laundry line and onto an uptown subway train. This version finds a childless couple popping the Gingerbread Boy into the oven in their tiny Manhattan kitchen: ""He baked up nice and brown but so hot that he shot right out of the oven."" Impressed with his speed, and unmindful of urban dangers, the Gingerbread Boy yells his trademark ""Run run run as fast as you can. ![]() In unembellished text and minutely detailed images, Egielski (Hey, Al) retells the story of a prideful cookie. ![]()
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