The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents

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270 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2005 by ISIS.

ISBN:
978-0-7531-7389-3
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OCLC Number:
57574360

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5 stars (1 review)

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 anymore. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start...

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reviewed The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 28)

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5 stars

Maurice is a talking cat that has his own group of rats following him, as well as a boy. Together they get rich by pretending to save towns from rats. But their last job goes very wrong. There's something else in the shadows of their new town...

I listened to the new Audible version that isn't available in Goodreads yet. I wasn't expecting the book to be scary, but it is made for Halloween! Peter Seratinowicz does a very good narration job (the rat king whispers are scary good, but not good in noisy transports - be warned!). A brilliant story about stories. The short note from Rob Wilkins at the end is also worth it.

Subjects

  • Discworld (Imaginary place)
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Rats