The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
core novel 2001 Discworld
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (53,999 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 256 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780060012342 |
Synopsis
Maurice, a streetwise talking cat, runs a well-practiced con with a clan of intelligent rats and a boy named Keith: the rats pose as a plague of vermin in a town, and Keith, posing as a piper, is paid to lead them away. The scheme has worked in town after town, but when the group arrives in Bad Blintz expecting an easy payday, they find the town's rat problem is real, its food supplies mysteriously vanishing, and two menacing professional rat-catchers already installed by the local council. As Dangerous Beans, Darktan and the other rats investigate the tunnels beneath the town alongside the mayor's fairy-tale-obsessed daughter Malicia, they begin uncovering evidence of a much darker operation than any confidence trick, forcing Maurice, Keith and the rats to decide how far their loyalty to one another extends when the con stops being a game.
Where it sits
- Universe: Discworld
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Terry Pratchett
Awards (verified)
- Carnegie Medal, 2001: won
Notes
- First Discworld novel written for children; Carnegie Medal 2001.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Discworld (standalone work): position 35 of 56: previous The Last Hero (2001) · next Night Watch (2002)
Sources
- https://wiki.lspace.org/Bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Maurice_and_His_Educated_Rodents
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
- CILIP Carnegie Medal for Writing, official winners archive
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