The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Discworld Hardback Library
$30.59
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
18 January 2022
Summary
The incredible Carnegie-winning adventure, now in a brand-new gift edition, part of the Discworld Hardback Library.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857536105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857536109 |
| Author: | Terry Pratchett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Doubleday Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 18 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 135mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Discworld Novels |
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Critics Review
Simply gripping story-telling
Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent. * Kirkus *It never ceases to amaze me the amount of… stuff one can find in a Terry Pratchett book * The Book Smugglers *Amazing Maurice has one of the most satisfying and effective endings in the series! * Reading Bug *Humour, humour and more humour, an utterly unpredictable plot, interesting rats - err, characters - and a profound denoument, this is Discworld at its best. * Speculation *Simply gripping story-telling * The Times *An astonishing novel…I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places * Financial Times *
About The Author
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.
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