Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

THE

GINGERBREAD

BOY

LIBRARY OF “JUST RIGHT

BOOKS”

The Tiddly Winks

Open Air Stories

Surprise Stories

Gingerbread Boy

The Party Twins

Doll Land Stories

The Treasure Twins

Tale of Curly Tail

Washington’s Boyhood

Reading Time Stories

Comical Circus Stories

Knowledge Primer Games

Real Out-of-Door Stories

Jolly Polly and Curly Tail

Fifty Funny Animal Tales

The Flower and Berry Babies

In and Out-Door Playgames

A Child’s Garden of Verses

Busy Fingers Drawing Primer

Happy Manikin in Manners Town

The Vegetable and Fruit Children

The Dinner That Was Always There

Six Tiddly Winks and the A to Zees

Published by

ALBERT WHITMAN & CO.

Chicago, U. S. A.

All the People That Bobby Had Been Kind to Came to His Party
(Bobby Bright Eyes’ Birthday Party)

THE GINGERBREAD BOY
AND JOYFUL
JINGLE PLAY STORIES

BY

LAURA ROUNTREE SMITH

AUTHOR OF HAPPY MANIKIN, JOLLY POLLY, TIDDLY WINKS, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY MILDRED LYON

“A JUST RIGHT BOOK”

PUBLISHED BY

ALBERT WHITMAN COMPANY

CHICAGO

THE GINGERBREAD BOY

Copyright, 1923, by Albert Whitman & Co.

Chicago, U. S. A.

Fourth Printing 1930

Big Brother Beaver and Chatter-box Dance a Hornpipe

“A JUST RIGHT BOOK”

MADE IN THE U. S. A.