L. Frank Baum 3 hr 28 min read

A life-sized gingerbread man, brought to life by a magic elixir, flees across strange lands with the Incubator Baby known as Chick the Cherub.

L. Frank Baum's 1906 fantasy, by the creator of Oz, is a whimsical, wildly inventive adventure of a living gingerbread man. Charming, imaginative, delightfully odd. Read it for a lesser-known Baum romp full of the same boundless invention that made Oz beloved.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 28 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

John R. Neill