Spectacled Bear’s Inventions

‘I’m going to invent SOMETHING,’ said the spectacled bear. He didn’t know what it would be yet, but it would come. Something USEFUL, he added a little later, something COMPLETELY NEW!

‘Otherwise it wouldn’t be an invention,’ said a baboon nine times wisely, but by then the other animals were already ambushing the spectacled bear with their wishes. And he came up with one invention after another, from the full moon lamp to  the curse compensator …

With loving wit and humorous dialogue, Nina and Nikolaus Ober guide us through an abstract, imaginative jungle teeming with surprising details (for young and old) alongside Spectacled Bear’s inventions.