The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

by Terry Pratchett

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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.
  • ISBN10 0552546933
  • ISBN13 9780552546935
  • Publish Date 4 November 2002 (first published 28 October 2001)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 December 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
  • Imprint Corgi Childrens
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 272
  • Language English