The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
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  • Published: 4 January 2007
  • ISBN: 9781407031552
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 7 min
  • Narrator: Tony Robinson
  • RRP: $17.99

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

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29 Nov 2022
Paperback
1 Aug 2013
Hardback
18 Jan 2022
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1 May 2010
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6 Oct 2022
Audiobook
4 Jan 2007
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28 Apr 2022
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A marvellously eccentric fantasy tale for young readers set in the Discworld universe.

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Maurice, an amazing cat who has survived four years on the toughest streets in the whole of the Discworld, reckons that rats are dumb. Clever, OK, but dumb. Maurice, however, is smart. Smart enough to recognize that there's a new kind of rat around - rats who have been eating wizards' rubbish and can now talk. Smart enough to get a pretty amazing idea when he spots a stupid-looking kid playing the flute...

Now Maurice has his very own 'plague of rats' - and his own Pied Piper. And his money-bags are getting fuller and fuller. Until the group reach the farflung village of Bad Blintz...
  • Published: 4 January 2007
  • ISBN: 9781407031552
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 7 min
  • Narrator: Tony Robinson
  • RRP: $17.99
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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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Praise for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy

The Guardian

Simply gripping story-telling

The Times

Powerful, passionate, mordantly funny and, at one point, unbearably sad

Debi Gliori, Daily Telegraph

An astonishing novel...I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places

Financial Times

Great yarn written in fairly simple text

Liverpool Echo

Will take you on a fantastic journey... wonderful, funny and gripping.

Kids Alive

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.

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