Here’s a new book especially for the Kindergarten and First Grade teachers who love the Gingerbread Man! The ones who have the Gingerbread Man hunts all around the school in September will now have a second story for the month of October- Fire Prevention Month.  2013 Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award nominee author Laura Murray has created a sequel to The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School. The class is going on a field trip to the fire station. Gingerbread Man is wary of the fire station’s dalmation which seems extremely interested in him. To keep away from the dalmation, he goes into the cab of the  fire engine. “I’ll VROOM and I’ll ZOOM, as fast as I can. I’ll STEER this big truck, I’m the Gingerbread Man!” Then Gingerbread Man goes up the fire pole over the bunks and into the kitchen for five-alarm chili, when the alarm sounds. Gingerbread Man goes back down the fire pole and onto the back of the fire truck. At the fire, he attempts to hold the fire hose “but that hose whipped and bucked like a rodeo bull.”   The women fire chief thanks him for his help and takes him back to the station.

Teachers will, also, enjoy the 21″ X 16″  two-sided poster found in a pocket inside the back cover. The poster’s front shows Gingerbread Man with the saying- “Smart cookies know: If there is smoke- stay low. Crawl below!”

On the back of the poster are four reproducible student (worksheets) activities: a Gingerbread Man coloring sheet, a Gingerbread Man maze, fire safety tips, and 6 pictures from the story to be put into sequence .