The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
by Terry Pratchett
Discworld Series Book 28
🏆 Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal
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“The Amazing Maurice is a retelling of ‘The Pied Piper.’ In The Amazing Maurice, the rats can talk, they’re intelligent. It’s all a scam: they come in, the rats take over, then the kid comes in and offers to get rid of them. And because the rats are in on it, they follow the kid out. It’s beautifully put together. Pratchett described it himself as the story based on the novel concept that people can talk out their problems. I love that! It doesn’t always have to be the big heroic battle at the end.” Read more...
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