Project Gutenberg 2014-10-21 Public domain in the USA. 274 Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856 1919 Van Dyne, Edith Bancroft, Laura Baum, Lyman Frank Metcalf, Suzanne Akers, Floyd Cooke, John Estes Fitzgerald, Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald, Hugh Staunton, Schuyler Neill, John R. (John Rea) 1877 1943 Neill, John Rea John Dough and the Cherub Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dough_and_the_Cherub Produced by David Edwards, Haragos Pál and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "John Dough and the Cherub" by L. Frank Baum is a work of fiction written in the early 20th century. This whimsical tale follows the adventures of John Dough, a gingerbread man brought to life thanks to a magical elixir, and his companion Chick, the Incubator Baby. The story navigates through themes of friendship, identity, and the peculiar nature of the characters inhabiting the fantastical Isle of Phreex. At the start of the narrative, the reader meets Madame Leontine Grogrande, who unknowingly becomes entangled in an adventure when she finds herself in possession of two magical flasks given to her by an anxious Arab. One of these flasks contains the Great Elixir, capable of granting life and vitality. Due to a mix-up, Madame uses the magical elixir to cure her rheumatism and inadvertently brings a gingerbread man, named John Dough, to life during the baking process. As John Dough ventures out into the world, he grapples with his newfound life, women's intentions to consume him, and their peculiar society, while Chick vows to protect him from these dangers. The stage is set for a charming exploration of adventure and the theme of being different in a whimsical and sometimes perilous world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Fantasy literature Voyages, Imaginary Children's stories Gingerbread men -- Juvenile fiction Children -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Adventure Category: American Literature 362457 2025-06-19T05:28:29.078237 text/html 339966 2024-10-24T11:43:38 text/html 9732555 2025-06-19T05:28:42.077108 application/epub+zip 9721172 2025-06-19T05:28:31.994165 application/epub+zip 187390 2025-06-19T05:28:30.339196 application/epub+zip 9802674 2025-06-19T05:28:49.034063 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 9538296 2025-06-19T05:28:39.128105 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 268229 2022-09-21T12:15:45.384207 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291623 2023-09-20T11:46:38.634406 text/plain 271685 2024-10-24T11:43:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18382 2025-06-19T05:28:49.264065 application/rdf+xml 30396 2025-06-19T05:28:30.476156 image/jpeg 4776 2025-06-19T05:28:30.406171 image/jpeg 9794200 2025-06-19T05:28:29.642164 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia