LoveReading4Kids Says
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A Carnegie Medal winner that is the perfect introduction into the comic, yet thought-provoking, Discworld created by the late lamented Sir Terry Pratchett.
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About The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats . . . But in Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune and now the rats must learn a new word. EVIL. It's not a game anymore. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start . . .'Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy.' The Guardian 'An astonishing novel' Financial TimesWritten by the beloved and acclaimed fantasty writer, Terry Pratchett.
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Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats . . .
But in Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune and now the rats must learn a new word.
EVIL.
It's not a game anymore. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start . . .
'Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy.' The Guardian
'An astonishing novel' Financial Times
Written by the beloved and acclaimed fantasty writer, Terry Pratchett.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780857536174 |
| Publication date: |
14th April 2022 |
| Author: |
Terry Pratchett |
| Publisher: |
Doubleday Children's an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
288 pages |
| Series: |
A Discworld Novel |
| Suitable For: |
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Press Reviews
Terry Pratchett Press Reviews
Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy - Guardian
Simply gripping story-telling - The Times
Powerful, passionate, mordantly funny and, at one point, unbearably sad, it is that rarest of things: a book that is heaven to read out loud to a pyjama-clad child -- Debi Gliori - Daily Telegraph
An astonishing novel . . . I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places . . . The Amazing Maurice might be considered his masterpiece. - Financial Times
Great yarn written in fairly simple text - Liverpool Echo
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About Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett (1948 - 2015) was born in 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. He had his first story published when he was just thirteen, and after leaving school at seventeen to become a journalist he continued writing, publishing his first novel, The Carpet People, in 1971 and going on to produce the phenomenally successful Discworld and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad. His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
Terry Pratchett as well as numerous other books, winning many awards and becoming the UK’s bestselling author. He was appointed OBE in 1998.
He died in March 2015 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. You can find out more about his life and work at www.terrypratchettbooks.com
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