The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Janisch, Heinz

The Fantastic Adventures of Baron Munchausen

32 pp. | Enchanted Lion | May, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59270-091-2 $17.95

(3) K-3 Translated by Belinda Cooper. Illustrated by Aljoscha Blau. These eleven first-person retellings of tall tales by the legendary eighteenth-century German adventurer are efficient, ebullient, and satisfyingly preposterous (Munchausen rides a seahorse and a cannonball, slingshots himself to a beach, performs music inside a whale's belly, etc.). Blau's surrealistic paintings, several of which recall the work of Salvador Dalí, are strikingly detailed.

Reviewer: Nell Beram