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      One day, Papa gingerbread man looked 

   down at his little gingerbread children and 

   told them that it was time for them to learn

   to build their little gingerbread houses.

       "It is important that you learn to build a 

   strong safe gingerbread house that will protect

   you from all the bad things that lurk in the 

   forest." He said.

      So, the three little gingerbread kids were 

   released into the forest for the first time without 

   their parents to build their gingerbread houses. 

       The forest was big and the sun was warm.

   The light trickled through the leaves of the trees

   and danced on the ground making it the perfect

   day to play. The temptation was far too great for 

   the youngest little gingerbread girl and her 

   brother, so they decided to find a way to build 

   their houses quickly.

        The youngest gingerbread girl used

    gumdrops to build her house because they

    were easy to stick together. She knew that she 

    could finish her house in a fraction of the time

    that it took her brother and sister, and it would

    still look nice since the gumdrops were so 

    colorful.

        So, the youngest gingerbread girl finished

    her house in only a few hours and ran into the  

    forest to play.

      Her brother saw her playing in the forest, 

   and he wanted to go play too. But, he wanted

   his house to be strong, so he used hard candy.

       "Hard candy will be much stronger than

   my sister's soft gumdrops, but it will be just as

   fast." He thought to himself.

        So, he finished his house with it taking him

   only a little more time than it took his younger

   sister to finish her house with gumdrops, and he 

   joined her in the forest to play.

       After hours had passed, the little gingerbread 

  boy noticed that his older sister had never joined

  them in the forest to play. 

       "Let's go see what is taking her so long."

  The little gingerbread boy said. 

     So, when they arrived at their older 

  sister's house, they were amazed to see all 

  the work that she had done.

      The oldest gingerbread sister had built her   house 

out of stone and used candy only to decorate it.

     "Wow, that looks like a lot of work!" Said the 

  little gingerbread boy.

      "And, it took so much time!" Said the little 

  gingerbread girl. "You didn't get to play at all."

  They both shouted.

       "But, my house has a strong foundation." 

replied the older gingerbread girl. But her younger 

brother and sister just laughed at her. 

       Meanwhile in a nearby forest, there lived a Big 

Bad Baker Boy who had forgotten to take his 

gingerbread out of the oven so, all of his cookies 

were charcoal black. 

       "Oh no." He cried. "I need some gingerbread 

  cookies right away for the festival." 

       So he ran out into the forest singing, 

       "I'm the Big Bad Baker Boy looking for some 

  gingerbread. Yum, Yum, I won't stop until I 

        find some fun."

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