Jan Brett's highly original version of the Gingerbread Boy story has quickly become a family classic. Now, the charming tale of Matti's clever trap for the runaway Gingerbread Baby is available as a beautiful board book for younger readers. And it still features a surprise lift-the-flap gingerbread house at the end<br><br><b>Author:</b> Jan Brett<br><b>Publisher:</b> G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers<br><b>Published:</b> 09/22/2003<br><b>Pages:</b> 32<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Board Book<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.55lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 5.00h x 6.25w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780399241666<br><b>Audience:</b> Baby-Preschool<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 3.5<br><b>Point Value:</b> 0.5<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Lower Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>34613 / Gingerbread Baby<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.<p>As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, an