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Summary: Terry Pratchett goes to kidsville
Review: Set in the discworld but with a fairy-tale twist, excelently written as all his books, he sets the story of the piper who makes a living by riding the town of its rats, but the piper has his set of trained rats to make sure there is a rat problem...
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Summary: Great Story
Review: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a satirical readaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamlin.Maurice and his educated rats lived near a wizard university where Maurice would beg kitchen scraps and the rats lived in their garbage pile. Somehow one of the failed spells made them self aware and able to speak and reason. After Maurice meets Keith or the stupid looking kid as he called by the animals, he comes up with a plan for the three parties to go into business with one another. Essentially the rats invade a town and Maurice and the boy playing his pennywhistle show up to save the day. In Bad Blintz, they discover a conspiracy amongst the rat catchers that threatens to destroy them all and must find a way to get the mayor and the constabulary to listen to them. This book is very funny especially Maurice. Pratchett really got into a cat's head and brought him to life. It is a well-written fairy tale deserving of a place of honor! Highly recommended!
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Summary: Not Terry's best but good nonetheless
Review: The Character development is just not what I expect from Pratchett
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Summary: Something Different
Review: The first story for young readers set in the Discworld, is something... well different. Mixing different tales like the pied piper, The Fantastic Five, Scooby Doo and puss in boots, Maurice and the rats (oh and the stupid kid and the girl) run rampant. If you enjoyed the nomes series, then you'll love this. If you like the Discworld... well this one will be a nice addition to the quickly expanding Discworld set.
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Summary: A "must" for the legions of Terry Pratchett fans!
Review: The latest in Terry Pratchett's wry, bizarre, exciting, and impossible to put down Discworld series, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is a humorous yet compelling story of a cat and his boy, as well as a tribe of rats who have all gained sentience due to the accidental side effects of wizardly machinations. The cat has also been blessed or cursed with sentience - for how is a cat ever meant to be capable of pondering the distinction between right and wrong, predator and prey? And now that the rats have the ability to think for themselves, they must find a new way of living, for they are no longer like ordinary rats in this superb, fascinating story that parallels "The Secret of NIMH" but with a closer reflection of true human nature - even as human nature can apply to cats and rodents. Terry Pratchett's Discworld series has been first-rate reading since its debut with "The Colour of Magic," and the latest in this proud, funny, and often insightful series does not disappoint. A "must" for the legions of Terry Pratchett fans!
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Summary: Funny and Frightening
Review: This is a wonderful, dark and hilarious story. It's for children, the same way the original Brothers Grimm stories were for children. It's funny and frightening, and in the best Pratchett tradition, makes you re-think the "fairy tales" you grew up with.
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Summary: Vaguely Discworld
Review: This is set in Discworld, but the tone and satire of the other Discworld novels is missing. The book appears to be written for an 8th grade reader, (high Harry Potter to low George Orwell). The story was a little more serious than The Rats of NIMH, but an easier read than Tailchaser's Song. I don't recommend it to adults, nor is it a "junior" introduction to Discworld for the junior high reader. It is a quiet, solid, story. If you are looking for the humor of Discworld, you'll be disappointed
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Summary: Best Book of the year.
Review: This is the best book published this year, for sure. Before you start reading it, I suggest you o make sure the iron is not plugged in
o make sure the stove is off
o unplug the phone
o disconnect the doorbell You'll recognize one of the standard childrens's book plots from the first page. (I'll not give it away here.) The nice well developed characters, and talking animals in a slightly unusual setting (if you've never read a Discworld novel before) will make you think this is very well written but sort of standard children's story. That feeling may last a page or two. That's all Pratchett needs to draw you into the story. You'll be immersed. Then, it gets a bit scary. It's not good versus bad, but kind versus mean. And mean looks like it is going to win. You will be surprised, and pleased with the wonderful ending, too.
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Summary: Another Pratchett masterpiece!
Review: This is the first "young adult reader" in Terry Pratchett's series on the Discworld--a flat world, supported on the back of four massive elephants riding on the back of a planet-sized turtle, anything hilarious can happen here, and eventually does. Maurice (a cat whose intelligence was augmented by magic), a group of intelligent rats, and Keith (a less intelligent human) have been running a scam. When they come to a new town, the rats form themselves into a "plague of rats," and Keith comes along and plays the Pied Piper, with the town footing the bill for the rats' removal. But the rats have discovered ethics, and Maurice has agreed to making the next town the last...as fate would have it, this one's going to be a real adventure! Terry Pratchett is a master storyteller, and this book lives up to his reputation. I'm not sure what sets this book aside as "young reader." The story is packed with adventure and suspense, and is just as gripping as any of his other books. I deeply enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it to you!
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Summary: Witty and gripping.
Review: This is the story of Maurice, a cunning 4-year-old talking cat, and his gang of intelligent rats. Together with Keith, a stupid-looking kid who plays the flute, they travel from town to town, doing the plague-of-rats-and-rat-piper trick to earn some pocket money. It works perfectly well, until the rats develop a conscience. They agree to do it one last time and head for Überwald, or more acurately for the small village of Bad Blintz. There they soon realize that something is amiss. Food in the village is rationed, rat tails are rewarded 50p a piece and strangely, there isn't a single "keekee" (regular rat) around. Teaming up with Malicia Grim, the mayor's silly daughter who thinks she's living in a fairy tale, they are determined to uncover the mystery. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents easily stands among my favourite Discworld novels. With a story that sometimes reminded me of Mrs Friby and the Rats of NIMH and a humour echoing that of the Bromeliad, where Pratchett observes our silly human world through the eyes of other creatures, and where rats have names such as Hamnpork or Dangerous Beans because they liked the sound of it but didn't understand the meaning, it is as intelligent and sensible, sometimes scary, even sad at times, as it is hilarious. And David Wyatt's illustrations are just too cute!
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