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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Terry Pratchett

Part of the Discworld series

  • 271 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2001
  • 49 editions
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1 About this book

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a children's fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published by Doubleday in 2001. It is the twenty-eighth novel in the Discworld series and the first written for children. The story is a new take on the German fairy tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin and a parody of the folk tale genre.

Pratchett won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. It was his first major award.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: humor, fantasy, and cats.

  • Cats
  • Humor
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Fantasy
  • Animals
  • Science fiction
  • Rats
  • Musicians

2 About Terry Pratchett

1948–2015

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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