Title: The King Cake Baby
Description: In this New Orleans version of The Gingerbread Man, the King Cake Baby, a small figure that is traditionally baked inside a king cake during Carnival season, escapes and encounters various local characters as he runs across the French Quarter, heading for the Mississippi River. Includes a recipe for king cake.
Subjects: Adaptations, Juvenile fiction, Carnival, King cakes, Mardi Gras, Fiction, Gingerbread boy, Children's fiction, Festivals, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction
Places: New Orleans (La.)