[Sca-cooks] OT OOP - 2nd new Pratchett book due out this year..

[Susan Laing]

For the Pratchett fans of the world :-)

Mari

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This Discworld children's novel is scheduled to be released in the Autumn of
2001.

Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by  Terry Pratchett

Comments by Terry:
"Not as yet [scheduled] in the U.S., because there's always been a hate/hate
relationship between U.S. children's publishers and myself, is likely to be
The Amazing [Maurice] and His Educated Rodents, which is--we're not going to
call it a junior Discworld, but it's a discworld book actually written with
the knob turned down a level, so it will be more accessible to the younger
market."

Synopsis
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 recognise 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 very own Pied Piper.
As the group reaches the far-flung village of Uberwald, the rats begin to
complain. They want this to be their job. It's also where Maurice meets
Malicia Grim, a young girl who thinks life works like a fairy tale. But
strangest of all, it's where they can't find any ordinary rats, or rather,
just the one...

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