the amazing maurice and his educated rodents book

Throughout the book I was always anxiously waiting for another rat to be introduced so I could delight in learning its name.Īnd for them, as sentient beings, everything is new! How to build and run a society.

The names they gave themselves are on par with Ian M.

The cat is the most cat-like character I’ve ever seen. At which point things get horribly wrong. This of course, works great right until the last job they plan to do. They all became sentient, gave themselves names and learned to speak.Īnd because Maurice is a cat, he convinced them to find a dim boy with a flute, have the rats visibly infest a city and then the boy will show up and lead them away - for a fee. The fantasy equivalent of a radioactive spill. Except the rats and Maurice (the titular cat) got contaminated by the latent magical field seeping out of the garbage of Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University. The premise is of course your classic Pied Piper story. Which is not quite true, but the animals definitely take the stage. So first, the boy plays very little role at the beginning and is more of a figurehead for the cat & rats troupe. I dunno, the setup just didn’t capture my imagination. It’s about an 11-ish year old kid, a talking cat and some rats. I didn’t have high expectations of this book. This review was originally posted at Goodreads and imported here later with next to no spell/grammar checking. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets.Set in Terry Pratchett's widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny.The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett - Aimlessly Going Forward Aimlessly Going Forward But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.They'd have been really amazed if they'd ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. Winner of the 2001 Carnegie MedalOne rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself.

The amazing maurice and his educated rodents book