Reviews:

STARRED REVIEW: "The Gingerbread Man heads to school in this delightful reshuffling of the traditional tale. Told in spot-on, deadpan rhyme and illustrated in large, comic-book-style panels, this title will leave kids giggling as they follow the sometimes dire consequences of G-man's efforts to be reunited with his class…This reinvention of a venerable figure is funny to the max.” —Booklist 
 
“In Murray's children's debut, when a gingerbread man made by schoolchildren gets left behind at recess, he decides he has to find his class: 'I'll run and I'll run, as fast as I can. I can catch them! I'm their Gingerbread Man!' And so begins his rollicking rhyming adventure as he runs, limps, slides and skips his way through the school, guided on his way by the friendly teachers he meets. The book's comic-book layouts suits the elementary-school tour… while Lowery's cartoon artwork fits the folktale theme. Teachers looking for a new way to start off the school year will eat this one up.” —Kirkus
                                                                “A spry, role-reversing story told through comic-book panels and buoyant verse, the gingerbread man is the pursuer, not the pursued. Cookie-related humor runs through both Murray's rhymes and Lowery's cartoons, as the gingerbread man--as dapper as he is determined--tracks a group of students through their school." —Publisher's Weekly
 
“There's a satisfying epic quality to the cookie's home-away-home journey, well scaled to readers' frame of reference. There are also some great cookie-centric lines in Murray's rhyming text … Lowery's cartoon-panel mixed-media illustrations imbue the highly sympathetic, wide-eyed confection with an abundance of personality… there's an endearing sweetness to this Gingerbread Man.”—Horn Book