The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don’t run. Rats that fight…Maurice, a scruffy tomcat with an eye for the main chance, has the perfect fiddle going. He has a stupid-looking kid for a piper, and he has his very own plague of rats – rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as ‘lunch’. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers – and is giving him lots of money…Until they try the trick in the far-flung town of Bad Blintz, and the nice little con suddenly goes down the drain. Someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. The rats must learn a new word. Evil. It’s not a game any more. It’s definitely a rat-eat-rat world down there. In fact, that might only be the start…Bestselling novelist Terry Pratchett leads readers from tale to tail in a darkly imaginative and fiendishly entertaining story, the first for younger readers set in the Discworld universe, the setting of his phenomenally successful fantasy novels.
Reviews
This has been my favourite book so far. I loved listening to the rats adventures with Keith and Maurice. Especially Dangerous Beans
Queen Bubbles Glitterball 26.09.2025
It was a fun book with the talking mice and a scam artist cat. There are three groups of rats and the book talks about each of the group, their funny names.
Corporal Crocodile Stegosaurus 27.01.2024
Good
Captain Panther Astronomical 28.08.2022
Would definitely suggest reading. Fun.
Commander Pongo Spaceship 12.09.2020
A good book, but some words didn't quite get, but like Terry Pratchet.
Anonymous 05.09.2020
I enjoy reading this book, i like Maurice the cat its like the Pied piper of hamelin its a highly recommended book
Don Ice-T Bertrand 28.08.2020
My favourite character was Maurice, a talking cat that went around with his talking rats and a boy who became a rat piper.
Duchess Bijou Bubble-wrap 07.08.2020
It was very funny and a bit odd. It was about a cat and some rats (educated ones) joining forces to beat the rat catchers. My favorite part was when one of the rats was about to be squashed by a rat trap, but one of the other rats gnawed through the spring to save him. I would recommend this to anyone who like adventures with lots of close calls.
Professor Cynthia Hedgehog 05.07.2020
It has a good story that is linked with the pied piper of hamelin with a boy named Keith who go's to different towns with his cat maurice and his educated rats. Keith then asks the people if they would pay him money to take the rats out of town.
Anonymous 12.08.2015
