High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 131?2 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" (Baren) and "berries" (Beeren) sound very much alike, whereas Blaubeere (lit. "blue berry") is actually the German word for bilberry (a number of other German cartoonists have made similar puns relating to bear names in their stories, including Rotger Feldmann aka Brosel), that a typical sailorish sailor is called an (old) seabear, and that sailors are prejudiced to be quite often blue, i.e. drunk. The novel was originally written in German, but an English translation was published in the United Kingdom in 2000 and in the United States in 2005. The novel attained considerable popularity in Germany and Great Britain while experiencing relative obscurity in the United...

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