The Gingerbread Man Bedtime Story (Gentle + Personalized)

Fresh from the oven, the Gingerbread Man hopped off the tray and ran out the kitchen door. "Run, run, as fast as you can!" he sang to the cat, and the cat blinked slowly. He ran past the pond. "Run, run!" he sang to the duck, and the duck tucked her head under her wing. He ran up the hill and down again, past the cow, past the gate, past the garden — until the sun began to set and his little icing shoes felt heavy. "Everyone I met today was resting," he puffed. "I wonder what resting is like." So the Gingerbread Man sat down on a warm flat stone, still holding a little crumb of breath. The stone was warm. The evening was soft. Stopping, it turned out, was delicious — sweeter than icing. "Rest, rest, as slow as you can," he whispered to himself, in his new favorite song. And the fastest cookie in the world fell fast, fast asleep.