Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This classic tale is part of child culture. The language is repetitive and encourages young learners to join in reading and practice pronunciation.
Author and publisher: Mairi Mackinnon, Usborne Publishing
Summary: This fairy tale is a classic and children may know different versions. Everybody wants to catch the gingerbread man, but he runs too fast for them. Finally, he reaches the river and a fox offers to take him across to the other side, but that is perhaps not such a good idea…..
