Remember how the Gingerbread Boy is eaten by the fox? Well,not this Gingerbread Baby in a delicious twist to a favorite oldtale.

It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps acheeky little Gingerbread Baby. He leads Matti's mother and father,the dog and the cat, and a whole colorful cast of characters on arollicking chase through the village and into the forest, stayingjust out of reach, daring them to catch him all along theway.

But Matti's not with them. He's at home in the borders making whatturns out to be a gingerbread house into which the Gingerbread Babyruns. Only Matti knows he is safely inside. And readers will toowhen they look under the lift-the-flap gingerbread house at the endof the story