The Adventures of Forri the Baker Author:Edward Myers, Edward Myers Picking up where the author's acclaimed picture book FORRI THE BAKER left off, this new storybook relates the life and times of history's greatest and most peculiar baker. Forri defends his village from invading barbarians; he defeats an evil, food-obsessed king; he creates a Frankenstein-like Bread Man (who promptly runs amok); and, late ... more »in life, he even confronts Death himself in the ultimate bake-off. In each story, bread is both what gets Forri into trouble and what ultimately becomes his means of escape. THE ADVENTURES OF FORRI THE BAKER is a sequence of original folk tales that is by turns outlandish, funny, and moving.« less