Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents -Terry Pratchett Reviews

A Discworld novel aimed at a slightly younger audience that the rest of the series, Maurice takes an irrevelant and often satirical look at the legend of The Pied Piper. Maurice is an intelligent cat- and not just in the cutesy-wutsey-aww-just-look-at-him kind of way. Maurice can talk. As can a select group of rats in whose company Maurice chooses ...  Read the complete review

____Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents -Terry Pratchett____ *About the author* If you haven't read Terry Pratchett you don't know what your missing. He is the author of the immensely successful Diskworld series and i would say that he is one of the most popular authors around. *The book* Maurice isn't ...  Read the complete review

Take a talking cat, some talking rats & a funny looking kid who turns out to be called Keith. It might not sound like much when said like that but throw in a tap dancing rat, A girl whose Aunts wrote fairy tales and who is convinced every life should tell a story and 2 crooked Rat Catchers who have done a really stupid thing in a town thats ...  Read the complete review

--- SECTION 1 - THE AUTHOR --- Terry Pratchett is... well, a very strange writer. That is probably the best way to describe him. Strange. Strange in a sense that his books all take place in the land of Discworld and towns named after spoiled Jewish food. Strange in a sense that some of his characters name themselves after things they see on ...  Read the complete review

An interesting take on the old Pied Piper of Hamlin story. With, as usual, Terry's tongue planted firmly in cheek. He must need chiropractic treatments for that as it's his usual writing position. I unabashedly love all Terry's works, so perhaps I'm a bit prejudice - I assume everything that leaks out of those talented fingers will be wonderful ...  Read the complete review

The Amazing Maurice is a cat, and His Educated Rodents are… um… rodents. What is a cat doing with educated rodents, I hear you cry. Well you see, not only the rats are educated, but Maurice himself is educated and more than a bit cunning. The rats have no idea how they came to start thinking, while Maurice has a suspicion that he hopes is not ...  Read the complete review

Terry Pratchett is a story teller, a story teller well capable of enthralling adults and children alike. Maurice and his Amazing Educated Rodents is aimed at the young adult target group of readers, but I am sure many older adults (like me) enjoy reading it too. Maurice is a very intelligent cat, who happens to be able to talk. He ...  Read the complete review

"Hey, Mum", says Darling Daughter (DD), "the school library has two whole shelves of Terry Pratchett - do you want me to bring any home?" "Oh, yes" say I, "Please." Fast forward one day (I read fast). "So, Mum, what's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents about?" ...  Read the complete review

This is a rather unusual offering from Terry Pratchett, in that it's set on Discworld, but is said not to be one of the Discworld novels because it is instead 'A Story Of Discworld' for younger readers. Not that that put me off reading it of course, but then I've always found Terry's children's books every bit as ...  Read the complete review

As a huge long term fan of Terry Pratchett's fabulous Discworld series, I was drooling with anticipation about this next, junior-sized addition to the saga. I got a copy yesterday, and I finished it this afternoon, and I loved it to pieces. 'Maurice' is less dense than the 'adult' Discworld books, but in no way is it ...  Read the complete review

Having been a Pratchett fan since 'The Colour of Magic' I wasn't going to let the fact that this book was aimed at a younger market bother me. After all, I thoroughly enjoyed Truckers. The first thing that any Pratchett fan will notice (apart from the great cover picture) is chapters. I know a Discworld book with chapters if like ...  Read the complete review

This is the first Discworld book that has been written for younger readers, if you hadn't been told this before you started reading it though you might have found it hard to notice. The book definitely feels like it has been made easier to read than other Discworld books (which were already very easy to pick up and read), characters feel more ...  Read the complete review

Amongst the presents I received on Christmas Day was this little beauty – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett. What a great title for a game of charades! I have been really getting into Pratchett in the past year or so and had been looking forward to this one, because I’m a big fan of rats! I have ...  Read the complete review

Well the annual re-read of my Pratchett books had to be interrupted for this and The Last Hero, which both came out in the same month. Last Hero turned out to be something of a disappointment. This didn't. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is just a fantastic, charming, witty and downright clever book. It's something ...  Read the complete review