The Pancake That Ran Away: A Picture Book

by Loek Koopmans, Polly Lawson

Three old ladies make a pancake that leaps out of the pan and rolls away into the forest, where it passes a succession of animals who each try to catch it

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

24 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1992

About the author

Studies art in Arnhem, Netherlands. Began his career as a freelance artist drawing and designing games and puzzles for children, and has since illustrated numerous books for children.

Reviews

[Amy]

This is very similar to the "Little Gingerbread Man" story, so similar that my son remarked on that.

Three women make a pancake. It jumps away. Various animals try to eat it. It eventually ends up with some children on the last page, who I guess eat it. That ending was a little odd.

[Djoeke]

Thuis was dit boek bij de kinderen als favoriet, maar nu is dit boek ook de favoriet van mijn kleuterklas waar ik stage loop.
Het leest voor als of je een toneelstuk op kunt voeren. De zinnen lopen lekker en de kinderen ervaren de herhaling in de stukjes als een feestje.
Een rollende pannenkoek is magisch!
Het thema dankbaarheid en beleefdheid komen er subtiel in naar voren.

Vooral de lacht van de kinderen vond ik heerlijk.

[James]

A beautifully illustrated story by Loek Koopmans that is a fun twist on the classic Runaway Gingerbread Man story where the runaway baked good is a pancake.

That the pancake is no way anthropomorphic and yet still ran away was a source of great amusement to Ella and made this a repeated read.

[Rozemarijn]

Read this zillion times when I was a kid.