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I love these books. Very creative and fun fantasy. They lose a little bit of their greatness in the English translation, but are well worth reading nonetheless.

>>21427526
Walter Moers' Zamonia novels are a joy, each in their own way. Very creative and unconventional world building, and all books have illustrations by the author himself. The first one came out in 1999.
Newer books by the author are more hit-and-miss, but that's not really a problem when reading the initial ones as they're all self contained, not an ongoing series.
The "main" works are The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear, Rumo's Miraculous Adventures, and The City Of Dreaming Books. Alchemaster's Apprentice and Ensel Und Krete (not sure if this one even has an English translation) I also recommend. imo they're Ideally read in the order they came out. Bluebear was the first, and some say a bit more aimed at a younger audience than what came later, but not in a way that's bothersome. It does perhaps the most world building out of all, it simply hasn't got much bloodspilling compared to Rumo, for example. Maybe some people would be better off read Dreaming Books and Rumo first. It's not like one spoilers the others.
If course the books, which all use language quite creatively and make new words, lose a little bit of their brilliance in translation, so those who can are well advised to read the German originals. Still, the English translation is serviceable and inconsistencies only noticeable to those familiar with the original text.
All in all, I highly recommend. You basically never see Moers in these threads and it's a damn shame.

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>>20996165
I was gonna suggest the same. Read Moers! He's terribly underappreciated in the English-speaking world.

>>20900550
I don't want to be that guy who talks about the same thing in every thread, but read Moers.

How come nobody here ever talks about Walter Moers' Zamonia novels? They're so damn great. Very creative fantasy. And they're illustrated by the author himself ontop of that. Especially the 3 main/biggest/best ones pictured here. Ideally read them in order from left to right, chronologically as like they came out. I can't recommend them enough and it saddens me that there's never been a movie or series adaption (although perhaps in the current times it's for the better).
>>2089384
I think they should be easy enough for you. An English translation exists and it is good, but in my opinion it doesn't quite reach the full greatness of the original. Something is always lost in translation, I guess. In this case especially names of things, people, places sometimes got english-ified i.e. became a little more dull. You wouldn't notice it if you haven't read the german original first.
Also, at least in the pirated epub of the English release I downloaded from libgen, the pictures are very low resolution and a lot of the creative formatting and fonts, which do add to the experience, aren't there.

>>20877603
Came here to recommend the same.
I'm currently reading the english translation of Rumo and it isn't quite as good, mainly regarding the names of places, people and objects.