Nursery rhyme help?

[mrkgnao]

I've just started reading Jasper Fforde's latest book The big over easy, a nursery crime novel Not being familiar with many English nursery rhymes, I'm going to need help with some...

I've found Jack Spratt and Mary Mary, but what I've found on the Gingerbread Man doesn't quite match his character in the book (though it might become clearer later). Is there another Gingerbread Man story or rhyme than the one where everyone tries to eat him and the fox finally gets him?


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[clueless]

I haven't seen it as a nursery rhyme, but as a story. My daughter had it as a picture book.

 

[Carica]

It is a story rather than a nursery rhyme. And there is only the one version - where he gets eaten bit by bit by the fox as they're crossing the river.

 

[Poppy1]

It's "The Little Gingerbread Man". He runs away from his owners(who baked him) and all sorts of animals try to catch him. He replies "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man" . Finally he reaches a river where a fox offers to give him a ride on his back to cross the river. He eats the gingerbread man on the way over. Aren't our nursery rhymes/fairy tales delightful Perhaps that's why so many people like horror stories when they get older

 

[mrkgnao]

Thanks for the replies! I'm hoping later in the book I'll get an explanation of how the gingerbread man became a serial killer


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