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K-3
Illustrated by
Bruno Robert.
Destined to become Santa's snack on Christmas Eve, resourceful Gingerbread Boy reins in the household's two unruly puppies and helps Santa clean up the mess they've made. Instead of eating him, an impressed Santa hires the cookie as watchman for his toy shop. Lively pictures, many cookie's-eye-view, illustrate this amusing (if sometimes halting) rhyme in the style of "The Night Before Christmas."