 The Gingerbread Man is a dangerous criminal in the Jasper Fforde Nursery Crimes series and the main antagonist in the second novel in this series, "The Fourth Bear".The book "The Hypnotizer" by Michael Rosen includes a story, which was also published on YouTube in 2008, called "fast food", which follows a similar plot, but with a hamburger replacing the gingerbread man.A happy ending Gingerbreadman book "The True Story of the Gingerbread Man" was published by Allen Kitchen with the illustrations of Funda Girgin in 2019.