"What is faster than a hungry old lady, a starving cow, and a greedy pig? A very mischievous gingerbread man! But will the gingerbread man outrun everyone he meets, or will he eventually by eaten?"--Back cover.
A retelling of the children's story in which a freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox.
A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.