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Can't Catch Me!: A Fairy Tale Flap Book
Join in the chase after the Gingerbread Man, together with Jack and the Giant, the Three Pigs, an angry troll and a host of other fairy tale folk in this unusual, funny and surprising version of an old favourite.
'Can't Catch Me!' hides a wealth of fun beneath east-to-lift flaps and in gloriously detailed pictures of a fairy-tale world waiting to be explored.
'Can't Catch Me!' hides a wealth of fun beneath east-to-lift flaps and in gloriously detailed pictures of a fairy-tale world waiting to be explored.
16 pages, Paperback
First published April 28, 1994
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June 18, 2017
I bought a lift-the-flap book for a friend's young daughter and he told me how much she liked it so when I saw this one, I decided to buy her another. But this time, as she enjoyed the first one so much I thought I would have a go at this one.
And, yes, it is fun as we chase after a gingerbread man that disappears out of the oven after an old couple had baked it. The couple's cat indicates that it went through the cat flap and when that flap is lifted the gingerbread man is waving goodbye and saying, 'Can't catch me!' Thus the chase begins.
A wooden bridge provides the second flap and the chase is joined by three billy goats gruff and a bad-tempered troll from under the wooden bridge (and behind the flap). Our gingerbread man then enters a house where live three pigs and where a wolf is lurking nearby and by the time he leaves the pigs and the wolf have joined the chasing pack.
The chase then takes them up a beanstalk and (not surprisingly perhaps) the chasing pack encounter Jack and a giant, the latter hidden under a large leaf-flap. The gingerbread man enters into the spirit of things for as he continues running away he shouts, 'Fee-fi-fo-fum, can't catch me!'
The chasers chase him into the woods where they encounter a host of fairy-tail characters in Snow White and the seven dwarfs, who then also join the chase. By this time our gingerbread man has headed to the beach and by the time the chasers arrive he has escaped to sea on a yacht and he is seen waving goodbye to everyone left behind ... well not quite everyone for the final flap, half the sail of the yacht, reveals one of the chasers has made it on board and is sat at a table, knife and fork at the ready ...
Meanwhile the old lady is philosophical as she sits on the beach and says to herself, 'Might as well bake another one...' - and why not?
And, yes, it is fun as we chase after a gingerbread man that disappears out of the oven after an old couple had baked it. The couple's cat indicates that it went through the cat flap and when that flap is lifted the gingerbread man is waving goodbye and saying, 'Can't catch me!' Thus the chase begins.
A wooden bridge provides the second flap and the chase is joined by three billy goats gruff and a bad-tempered troll from under the wooden bridge (and behind the flap). Our gingerbread man then enters a house where live three pigs and where a wolf is lurking nearby and by the time he leaves the pigs and the wolf have joined the chasing pack.
The chase then takes them up a beanstalk and (not surprisingly perhaps) the chasing pack encounter Jack and a giant, the latter hidden under a large leaf-flap. The gingerbread man enters into the spirit of things for as he continues running away he shouts, 'Fee-fi-fo-fum, can't catch me!'
The chasers chase him into the woods where they encounter a host of fairy-tail characters in Snow White and the seven dwarfs, who then also join the chase. By this time our gingerbread man has headed to the beach and by the time the chasers arrive he has escaped to sea on a yacht and he is seen waving goodbye to everyone left behind ... well not quite everyone for the final flap, half the sail of the yacht, reveals one of the chasers has made it on board and is sat at a table, knife and fork at the ready ...
Meanwhile the old lady is philosophical as she sits on the beach and says to herself, 'Might as well bake another one...' - and why not?
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