 The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

The 13 Lives of Captain Bluebear is a 1999 fantasy novel by German writer and cartoonist Walter Moers which details the numerous lives of a human-sized bear with blue fur.The captain's name is originally a pun in German, based upon the fact that the German words for "bears" ("Bären") and "berries" (Beeren) sound very much alike, whereas "Blaubeere" (lit.