The Gingerbread Man. Traditional English stories for children

We present this traditional story in English for your children to learn while playing. The gingerbread man tells the story of an old woman who cooked a gingerbread man-shaped cookie one day. A fun story in English that you can read to your children so they can learn English while having fun. Traditi

We present this traditional story in English for your children to learn while playing. The gingerbread man tells the story of an old woman who cooked a gingerbread man-shaped cookie one day.

A fun story in English that you can read to your children so they can learn English while having fun. Traditional stories are ideal for teaching English to children in a simple and instructive way.

The gingerbread man. Stories in English

An old woman was baking one day, and she made some gingerbread. She had some dough left over, so she made the shape of a little man. She made eyes for him, a nose and a mouth, all of currants, and placed more currants down his front to look like buttons.

Then he laid him on a baking tray and put him in the oven to bake.
After a little while, she heard something rattling at the oven door. She opened it and her surprise out jumped the little gingerbread man she had made. She tried to catch him as he ran across the kitchen, but he slipped past her, calling as he ran:

- "Run, run, as fast as you can, You can not catch me, I'm the gingerbread man! "

She chased after him into the garden where her husband was digging. I've put down his spade and tried to catch him too, but as the gingerbread man lawn past him he called on his shoulder:

- "Run, run, as fast as you can, You can not catch me, I'm the gingerbread man! "

As I ran down the road I passed tocow. The cow called out,

- "Stop, gingerbread man! You look good to eat!" The But the gingerbread man laughed and shouted over his shoulder: "-" I've run from an old woman And an old man. man! "

The cow ran after the old woman and the old man, and soon they all passed to

horse

.- "Stop!" called out the horse, "I'd like to eat you." The But the gingerbread man called out:"I've run from an old woman And an old man, And a cow! Run, run, As fast as you can, You can not catch me, I'm the gingerbread man ! "

He ran on, with the old woman and the old man and the cow and the horse following, and he went past a party of people haymaking. They all looked up as they saw the gingerbread man, and I have passed them out:

- "I've run from an old woman, And from an old man, And a cow and a horse. Run, run, as fast as you can, You can not catch me, I'm the gingerbread man! "

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The

haymakers

joined in the chase behind the old woman and the old man, the cow and the horse, and they all followed him as he ran through the fields. I've met fox, so I've called out to the fox: "Run, run, as fast as you can, You can not catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"

But the slyfoxsaid,

- "Why should I bother to catch you?" Although I thought to himself, "That gingerbread man would be good to eat."

Just after he had run the fox the gingerbread man had to stop because he came to a wide, deep, swift-flowing river. The fox saw the old woman and the old man, the cow, the horse and the haymakers all chasing the gingerbread man so he said,

- "Jump on my back, and I'll take you across the river!"The gingerbread man jumped on the fox's back and the fox began to swim. As they reached the middle of the river, where the water was deep, the fox said, "-" Can you stand on my head, Gingerbread Man, or you will get wet. "So the gingerbread man pulled himself up and stood on the fox's head. As the current flowed more swiftly, the fox said, "

- Can you move on to my nose, Gingerbread Man, so that I can carry you more safely? I would not like you to drown."

The gingerbread man slid on to the fox's nose. But when they reached the bank of the river, the fox suddenly went snap! The gingerbread man disappeared into the mouth, and it was never seen again.

Read the tale of the gingerbread man in Spanish

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