Quote Originally Posted by rockzmom
They state that it could be The Gingerbread Man, which I don't think that is what I remember.
As I read the text of "The Gingerbread Man" I found it to be extremely close to the Russian Kolobok fairy tale. Even the way the bread sings. The English song is just a word to word version of the Russian one. The only differences are: the bread shape, the set of animals willing to eat the bread, and the final scene. In the final scene English fox was just fast enough to catch the boastful bread while the Russian fox used a trick to cheat the bread and catch it. Upon being eaten the English bread cried while the Russian bread had no chances to say even a word.