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A fun, beautifully illustrated story of what it takes to keep the gingerbread men, who come to life , around until Christmas! Highly recommend!

Such a lovely Christmassy story. I really enjoyed spending time with my son reading the story and exploring the gorgeous illustrations. A lovely story to be enjoyed for many years to come!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. Unfortunately, I did not like this book at all and would not buy it for my nieces. It had weird words and had a confusing story line and mesaage. Thank you.

Picture book. I was disappointed in this book. Gingerbread men are one of my favorite Christmas symbols, so I was excited to read this story. I found the illustrations off-putting, almost like they were done in clip art. The story seemed a bit disjointed. For a tale about gingerbread cookie finding gingerbread house, I will stick with the classic Jan Brett story.

The rhyming will be popular with the kiddos. The illustrations are fun and it is always funny to see dabbing. My only issue with the book is the fancy first letters. The “T”s are hard to distinguish from an “L”. If you are looking for a quick, sweet holiday book, it is a good pick.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the DRC.

This is a Children's book. I read this book to my three kids (10, and twin boys 6). They all laughed so hard, and I even enjoyed the story. This is just a very cute and funny Christmas. I do not think there is a big message behind the story. We all just need a cute funny Christmas story this year. I am so glad I read this book to my kids tonight. The pictures are so cute as well. I got my kids to count the gingerbread men and other things as I read. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher or author (Laura Gia West) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review about how I feel about this book, and I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.

An excellent Christmas themed picture book which isn’t your usual Christmas story. The beautiful pictures are what makes this book utterly irresistible.

This is a lovely book that both myself and my 4 year old son loved.
It is beautifully written and illustrated and the story kept my son's attention throughout.
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for my ARC.

A bit scattered, I didn't love this Christmas book. The story was fine but not super memorable or entertaining. Plus the type set and page design was not my fav.

This one was just okay for us. It didn’t really keep my daughters attention and I found the illustrations to be kind of blah. Some of the letters were also so weirdly typed that it was hard to tell what they were. Not a bad book, but we won’t be adding it to our Christmas book pile.

A fun holiday read for kids! Go on an adventure with a gingerbread man and read this fun and quirky book! Definitely a great read for kids during Christmas! It might just make you want to build a gingerbread house!

It started out cute, but then it kept going..............
This book kind of went on too long and some of the rhymes weren't that great. The illustrations are cute but I really wanted something about a gingerbread house in a tree like the front cover looks. Oh well. I think some will like this for Christmas but it is not one I will be recommending.

I enjoyed the rhyming story and the pictures were bright and colorful. Some of the pictures looked too computer generated and some of the font used to start the sentences was not completely clear what letter it was. You could tell by context but the S's and Y's did not look like those letters.

I liked the concept of this book, as a sort of obscure sequel to the usual Gingerbread man that has by now driven me mad in the classroom.
I wanted to enjoy the book but I feel it is still a work in progress. While I enjoyed the rhyming couplets and the rhythm of the language, I feel some of the pages were made more as an obligation to that rhythm rather than being a natural progression of the language. I would perhaps consider removing the angry Gingerbread man, calling a child a bore for not making a gingerbread house, going forward... A children's book generally tends to inspires morale or meaning for a child, teaches lessons, or at least makes a child laugh, and in this I feel this book errored.
The images were cute and Christmas's in nature, but some looked a little haphazard and thrown together... For example, the gingerbread house has seemingly been cut and pasted.
All in all, I enjoyed the concept but I think the execution lacks a little finesse and could be improved in further edits.

Perfect little Christmas book, with short snappy rhyming verses, a lovely story and bright colourful illustrations.

This book is beautiful!! Such a lovely title story for kids of all ages, even adults! The illustrations are fantastic and beautifully drawn. This is a prefect Christmas book!

What a beautifully illustrated book this was! Lovely brightly coloured pictures to catch your child's attention & a magical story to boot. Ideal for your little ones Christmas stocking 🎅🏻

This is a wonderful children's book, which is perfect for this time of the year. My daughter loved this book, which we used as a bedtime story for her. She was very excited about it and she loved the story, characters and the beautiful illustrations, which were magical.
Many thanks to the author, publisher and netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The Gingerbread House Laura Gia West is a very cute story to read to children probably would only take five minutes to read. My children used to like to read many stories quick. The pictures in the book are wonderful.