The Wee Free Men

core novel 2003 Discworld

Record

First published	2003
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.30 (123,188 ratings, collected 2026-09-11)
Page count	320
First-edition ISBN	9780062435262

Synopsis

Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, a shepherd's granddaughter on the chalk downs, realizes she has First Sight, the ability to see things as they truly are, including magical creatures invisible to everyone else. After a chance encounter with a traveling witch named Miss Tick, who recognizes her potential and gives her a toad companion, Tiffany's world is upended when her small brother Wentworth is snatched away by the Queen of the Fairies. Determined to get him back, Tiffany allies herself with the Nac Mac Feegle, a boisterous clan of tiny, blue-skinned, sword-wielding men who speak in a thick dialect and claim descent from her late grandmother's own flock. Armed mostly with practical sense, a frying pan, and the memory of her grandmother's example, Tiffany leads the Feegles into the shifting, dreamlike realm of Fairyland to rescue her brother from the Queen's domain.

Where it sits

• Universe: Discworld
• Series: Tiffany Aching core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Terry Pratchett

Awards (verified)

• Locus Award (Best Young Adult Book), 2004: won

Notes

• From the series record (Tiffany Aching): YA sequence; counts fully as Discworld novels.

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 the series Tiffany Aching: position 1 of 5: next A Hat Full of Sky (2004)

Sources

• https://wiki.lspace.org/Bibliography
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wee_Free_Men
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
• sfadb -- Locus Awards Winners By Category

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