The Gingerbread Boy, Series 606d, 1966

The Gingerbread Boy, 1966.  This book, illustrated by Robert Lumley, was the 7th book in the original series of 27 Well-Loved Tales books.   The text, as always in the books of this series, was written by Vera Southgate.

As usual, the tales with lots of magical animals in them were given to Robert Lumley to illustrate but in this book, and here he uses humour, energy and observation to create images that will create real drama for a young child at bedtime.  It’s difficult to warm to the ungrateful little Gingerbread Boy here, so keen to run away from the nice couple, but it’s still a bit of a shock when he gets eaten by the fox at the end.

This copy:

The Gingerbread Boy, matt boards, Illustrated by Robert Lumley.  This copy is in very good condition inside and out – rubbing to the edges and corners, slight mottling to the edges but nice, clean pages.  This book dates from the 1960s and has the original price of 2/6 on the back.