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A fine round cake escapes from the oven and eludes man and beast until it meets its match in the wily 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.

A freshly baked gingerbread boy escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes his pursuers until he meets a clever fox.

A freshly bake gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox.

A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a series of nursery rhyme characters who hope to eat him until meeting up with a clever fox. Includes recipe.

In this retelling of the Little Gingerbread Boy, the cookie is a rabbit, baked by a mother as a surprise for her daughter, and his adventures, with other rabbits as well as with the fox, have a happing ending when the mother makes a toy stuffed rabbit like him.

Just before the Passover seder, a man baked from scraps of matzo dough escapes from the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets clever Mendel Fox.

A rolling pancake eludes all its pursuers except one clever pig.

A retelling of the traditional Norwegian tale about the adventures of a runaway pancake.

After chasing the special rice cake, Nian Gao,that their mother has made to celebrate the Chinese New Year, three poor brothers share it with an elderly woman and have their generosity richly rewarded.

In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him.

When Nick and Nora Candlewick build the snowman of their dreams, their wish for a real playmate comes true. Soon their mischievous Snow Dude is on the run and creating havoc!

The school principal bakes a gingerbread cookie and brings it to school in his lunch. When the principal opens his lunchbox, the gingerbread kid winks and jumps off his desk. Where is he off to in such a hurry?

A pesky black fly taunts all the animals, boasting that they cannot catch him, until he bothers one animal too many.

Wolves Willy and Wally try to satisfy a sweet-tooth craving by dressing up as private detectives and chasing down a runaway cookie.

In this version of "The Gingerbread Man," an ice cube runs away to sea hoping to grow as big as an iceberg and bump into boats.

In this Jewish version of "The Gingerbread Boy," a matzo ball runs away from an old woman as she prepares her Passover dinner.

In "The Musubi Man's New Friend," the feisty ball of rice who outran a pack of pursuers in "The Musubi Man: Hawaii's Gingerbread Man" takes on a new challenge. In typical style, he outsurfs his new pursuers, but soon he's running again--with surprising results.

It's the Night of the Radishes and don Pedro wants to carve the best radish sculpture in town. But one radish won't cooperate. The Night of the Radishes is an annual festival held on the evening of December 23rd in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Like her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy, who was eventually devoured by a fox, the Gingerbread Girl eludes the many people who would like to eat her but also has a plan to escape her sibling's fate.

A freshly baked musubi man escapes from the old woman's kitchen and eludes his pursuers in this Hawaiian version of the "Gingerbread Boy."