Gingerbread Day
The CBC Holidays Series explores stories that relate to specific holidays so that readers of all ages can celebrate in the best way… with a good book!
Today is Gingerbread House Day and Gingerbread Decorating Day (December 12), so we are celebrating these deliciously creative baked cookies. Whether your gingerbread takes the form of a house, person, or snowflake, let’s deck out our fun creations with icing and sprinkles.
Alice’s Wonderland Bakery: The Gingerbread Palace, by Disney Books (Disney Books) — Fiction, Picture Book, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Holidays, Cooking, ages 4-6.
Gingerbread, by Rachel Cohn (Simon & Schuster BYR) — Fiction, Prose, Contemporary, Teen.
Gingerbread Baby, written and illustrated by Jan Brett (Penguin Random House / G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR) — Fiction, Board Book, Holidays, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Humor, ages 0-3.
Gingerbread Christmas, written and illustrated by Jan Brett (Penguin Random House / G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR) — Fiction, Board Book, Holidays, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Music / Art, ages 4-6.
The Gingerbread Cowboy, by Janet Squires; illus. Holly Berry (Scholastic Inc.) — Fiction, Picture Book, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Humor, Action / Adventure, ages 4-6.
Gingerbread Family (Holiday Shaped Series), by Sophie Pryce; illus. Tim Budgen (Little Bee Books) — Fiction, Board Book, Holidays, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Series, ages 0-3.
Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution, by Mara Rockliff; illus. Vincent X. Kirsch (Clarion Books) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, History, ages 7-12.
The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas, by Laura Murray; illus. Mike Lowery (Penguin Random House / G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR) — Fiction, Picture Book, Holidays, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Series, ages 4-6.
The Gingerbread Man, written and illustrated by Karen Schmidt (Scholastic Inc.) — Fiction, Picture Book, Holidays, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Classics, ages 0-3.
The Gingerbread Man, written and illustrated by Estelle Corke (Child’s Play) — Fiction, Picture Book, Action / Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, ages 4-6.
The Gingerbread Man, by Joy Cowley; illus. In-gahng Jeon (Lerner Publishing Group) — Fiction, Picture Book, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Classics, ages 4-6.
The Gingerbread Pirates, by Kristin Kladstrup; illus. Matt Tavares (Candlewick Press) — Fiction, Picture Book, Holidays, Action / Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, ages 4-6.
The Gingerbread Witch, by Alexandra Overy (Inkyard Press) — Fiction, Prose, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Series, ages 7-12.
How to Catch a Gingerbread Man, by Adam Wallace; illus. Andy Elkerton (Sourcebooks) — Fiction, Picture Book, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Humor, Series, ages 4-6.
The Ninjabread Man, by C. J. Leigh; illus. Chris Gall (Orchard Books) — Fiction, Picture Book, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Sports, Cooking, ages 4-6.
The Plan for the Gingerbread House: A STEM Engineering Story, by Darcy Pattison; illus. John Joven (Mims House) — Nonfiction, Picture Book, STEM, Cooking, Science, ages 7-12.
Celebrate Gingerbread Day by reading a book!
List compiled by CBC’s resident holiday expert, Sommer Wissner. Check out other CBC Holiday book lists on our blog.
