The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - Softcover

Terry Pratchett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552546933 ISBN 13: 9780552546935

Publisher: Corgi Childrens, 2002

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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 any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start...
One of Terry Pratchett s funniest creations . It all adds up to a wonderful book hilarious, brilliantly constructed and shot through with an edginess to balance the laughs SFX Magazine
Enticing and occasionally gory Observer
A laugh-a-minute Times Educational Supplement

Edition details

• Publisher: Corgi Childrens
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552546933
• ISBN 13: 9780552546935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272