The Baron Rides Out

Baron Munchausen

by Adrian Mitchell, Patrick Benson (Illustrator)

Retells Baron Munchausen's boastful account of his amazing adventures as he travels around the world.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Adrian Mitchell, FRSL, was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him the British Mayakovsky.

Reviews

[Jobiska (Cindy)]

Great illustrations of this version of Baron von Munschausen's tales. I'm not a big tall-tale fan, so this is going to my son's school library.