The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents

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Terry Pratchett: The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents (2008, HarperCollins Publishers)

340 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2008 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-001235-9
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OCLC Number:
275169293

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5 stars (1 review)

A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king. One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. 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. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. …

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5 stars

Maurice is a talking cat that has his own group of rats following him, as well as a boy. Together they get rich by pretending to save towns from rats. But their last job goes very wrong. There's something else in the shadows of their new town...

I listened to the new Audible version that isn't available in Goodreads yet. I wasn't expecting the book to be scary, but it is made for Halloween! Peter Seratinowicz does a very good narration job (the rat king whispers are scary good, but not good in noisy transports - be warned!). A brilliant story about stories. The short note from Rob Wilkins at the end is also worth it.

Subjects

  • Humorous stories
  • Rats
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Cats
  • Musicians
  • Swindlers and swindling
  • Human-animal relationships