The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents (Discworld Novels)

The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents (Discworld Novels)

by Sir Terry Pratchett (Author)

Synopsis

Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don't run. Rats that fight...Maurice, a scruffy tomcat with an eye for the main chance, has the perfect fiddle going. He has a stupid-looking kid for a piper, and he has his very own plague of rats - rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers - and is giving him lots of money...Until they try the trick in the far-flung town of Bad Blintz, and the nice little con suddenly goes down the drain. Someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. The rats must learn a new word. Evil. It's not a game any more. It's definitely a rat-eat-rat world down there. In fact, that might only be the start...Bestselling novelist Terry Pratchett leads readers from tale to tail in a darkly imaginative and fiendishly entertaining story, the first for younger readers set in the Discworld universe, the setting of his phenomenally successful fantasy novels.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
Published: 04 Nov 2002

ISBN 10: 0552546933
ISBN 13: 9780552546935
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Prizes: Winner of LA Carnegie Medal 2002. Shortlisted for WH Smith Book Awards (Children's Book of the Year) 2002 and Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2002.

Author Bio
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie.