Walter Moers, Author, John Brownjohn, Translator , trans. from the German by John Brownjohn. Overlook $26.95 (704p) ISBN 978-1-58567-724-5
Nine-lived cats have nothing on the "bluebear," who, according to German author and illustrator Moers, has a whopping 27 lives. In this inventive, zany, fun-for-all ages odyssey (a bestseller in Europe), an intrepid "seagoing bear"...
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Walter Moers, Author, John Brownjohn, Translator , trans. from the German by John Brownjohn. Overlook $26.95 (455p) ISBN 978-1-58567-899-0
German author and cartoonist Moers returns to the mythical lost continent of Zamonia in his uproarious third fantasy adventure to be translated into English (after 2006’s Rumo
), a delightfully imaginative mélange of Shel Silverstein...
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Walter Moers, Author, Gustave Dore, Illustrator, John Brownjohn, Translator , trans. from the German by John Brownjohn; illus. by Gustave Doré. Overlook $22.95 (197p) ISBN 978-1-58567-873-0
German author Moers has constructed a surreal adventure story inspired by 21 woodcuts by 19th-century French illustrator Gustave Doré, which are interspersed throughout the novel. Readers follow the exploits of a boy named Gustave, the...
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Walter Moers, Author, Walter Moers, Illustrator, John Brownjohn, Translator , trans. from the German by John Brownjohn. Overlook $25.95 (686p) ISBN 978-1-58567-725-2
Set in the land of Zamonia, this exuberant, highly original fantasy from German writer and cartoonist Moers (The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
) features an unlikely hero, Rumo, a little horned puppy (or Wolperting) who lives on a farm with a
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Walter Moers, Author, Walter Moers, Illustrator, John Brownjohn, Translator , trans. from the German by John Brownjohn. Overlook $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-1-59020-218-0
Moers's elegantly written fourth stand-alone comic fantasy set in Zamonia (after 2008's The City of Dreaming Books
) takes us to the city of Malaisea, where everyone is sick except for two characters: Echo, a Crat (a talking cat, more or...
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