How?

(image From "I Know a Story a Wonder Story" (The Wonder - Story Books copyright 1938) )

How do you retell a story that has been retold as often as this one? A search on Amazon comes up with about 379 children's book with gingerbread in it.

Well first you have Rena Jones write it.

Second do your homework. I felt a certain responsibility to what was done in the past.

Fairy Tales are one of my loves so I started looking up other versions of the Gingerbread Man to see what was done old and new.

I wanted to make sure what I did was original with a taste of the past, not copy it.

Also newer versions like the ones done by Jan Brett was an inspiration.

All this information I was gathering was great asset to making this all work. I knew the story was a chase in the woods. But the question was, "How to make it work?"

How do I make it unique?"

(answer is to come hold on to your chair)

(more to come!)