The Adventures of Baron Münchausen

Baron Münchausen travels all around the world righting wrongs and besting bad folks. Each chapter is a separate adventure, and all the adventures have the feel of a tall tale, with humor and wild exaggeration.

This is probably the most imaginative book I think I have ever read. Wild and unexpected twists and meanderings in the plot fill the book, and these delighted me.

This book was great fun, but I can't help feeling like this was a bad translation from the original German, with lots of big words that are strikingly awkward in the story. As often happens with older stories, there are some scenes that feature cultural stereotypes of the time in which the story was written, and, if you aren't keen on your children reading violence, you better not open this book.