The Washington Post review comment: "Equal parts of J. K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and Shel Silverstein."

From the publishers notes-- This book is a German cult classic that follows the enjoyable adventures of a bear for 13-1/2 of his lives (only half of his life because, as everyone knows, bluebears have 27 lives).

Bluebear was discovered cradled inside a walnut shell floating on the ocean, spends his early childhood with Minipirates and Hobgoblins, is taught to speak by two chattering waves, and learns to navigate by assisting a near-sighted pterodactyl who specializes in performing rescues just in the nick of time. He has encounters with a brilliant, seven-brained professor whose intellect does best in the dark, a Prince from the 2364th Dimension, the Spiderwitch, and the treacherous Troglotroll.

ISBN-10 1-58567-844-9

Author Walter Moers. Translator John Brownjohn. Published in 2000 by Overlook Press. 704 pages.

Softcover book in good used condition. Lots of art drawings, pictures, and illustrations.

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