"Marsupial Sue Presents "The Runaway Pancake"" follows a similar plotline about a pancake whose hubris gets the best of him.Modern twists on the tale that retain a gingerbread man as the protagonist include Janet Squires' "The Gingerbread Cowboy"; "The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School" (2002) by Joan Holub; and Lisa Campbell's "The Gingerbread Girl" (2006).