The group plans to enact a scheme they have used many times before, where in the rats pretend to infest the town and Keith poses as a rat piper to lead the "vermin" away for a small sum of cash. The book opens with Amazing Maurice (a sentient cat), a group of talking rats (the Clan), and the human boy Keith travelling in a mail coach to a small town called Bad Blintz. Maurice and his educated rodents were previously mentioned in the eleventh Discworld novel, Reaper Man (1991), although the characters in that novel are aware of the fraud perpetrated by Maurice and the rats. Contrary to the contrast between adult and child markets, reflected in catalogues, The Guardian observed on the occasion of the Carnegie Medal that "he main audience for Pratchett's 48 books, all busily in print, is teenagers, who are drawn by his irrepressible invention and sense of mischief." It differs from earlier Discworld novels also by its division into chapters, though chapters become far more common in later books of the series. Amazing Maurice was marketed as a children's book, to be followed in that respect by The Wee Free Men (2003, #30). Series ĭiscworld had been a comic fantasy series for adults, beginning with The Colour of Magic in 1983. Pratchett won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. The story is a new take on the German fairy tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin and a parody of the folk tale genre. It is the twenty-eighth novel in the Discworld series and the first written for children. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a children's fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published by Doubleday in 2001. For the 2022 film based on the novel, see The Amazing Maurice.
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