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New Friend on the Loose
(The Gingerbread Man is Loose Graphic Novel)

Author
Laura Murray
Illustrator
Mike Lowery
Publication Date
June 24, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Graphic Novel
New Friend on the Loose (The Gingerbread Man is Loose Graphic Novel)
Description

This fan-favorite Gingerbread Man is cooking up something new in this graphic novel for the earliest readers!

The Gingerbread Man's class is back in the kitchen! They're using shapes to make fun cookies, and the Gingerbread Man knows just what he wants to make--a new puppy! AKA a cookie's best friend.

But when the puppy comes to life and runs loose through the school, the class will have to come up with even more fun creations to lure him back home. Good thing this cookie sure knows how to have a ball!

This Gingerbread Man's series of graphic novels--published in both hardcover and paperback editions--is for the youngest readers, full of the hilarious rhymes and action-packed escapades kids know and love from his picture books.

Publication date
June 24, 2025
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
48
ISBN-13
9780593532553
Lexile Measure
470
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Series
The Gingerbread Man Is Loose Graphic Novel
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV012040 - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Adaptations
JUV008070 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Fairy Tales, Folklore, Legends & Mythology
Library of Congress categories
Dogs
Picture books
Stories in rhyme
Cookies
Laura Murray
Laura Murray was a teacher before becoming a writer, and she has had to deal with many an escaped gingerbread man in her time.

Mike Lowery is an author and New York Times bestselling illustrator who has worked on dozens of books for kids. Some of his favorites are The Gingerbread Man is Loose series by Laura Murray, the Mac B, Kid Spy series by Mac Barnett and the Everything Awesome series which he also wrote. He likes to collect weird facts and other bits of knowledge and he draws them every morning in his sketchbook. Visit him online at mikelowery.com and follow him on Instagram @mikelowerystudio
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