The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Cover of the Collector's Library edition
Collector's Library edition, 2022
AuthorTerry Pratchett
Audio read byTony Robinson (abridged);
Stephen Briggs (unabridged)
Ariyon Bakare (new)
Cover artistPaul Kidby
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDiscworld
Release number
28
GenreFantasy
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
2001-11-01
Preceded byThe Last Hero 
Followed byNight Watch 

For the animated film adaptation, see The Amazing Maurice.

Blurb

Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats...

But in Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune and now the rats must learn a new word.

EVIL.

It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start...

Podcast episodes

Major appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.

Date Show Episode External link
2019-08-14 Radio Morpork "Puss in Cahoots" radiomorpork.wordpress.com
2020-07-08 Pratchat "Cat, Rats and Two Meddling Kids" pratchatpodcast.com
2020-12-15 The Death of Podcasts The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents aalgar.com
2021-06-28 Wyrd Sisters The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents wyrdsisters.podbean.com
2021-11-21 Desert Island Discworld Erica Henderson and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents desertislanddiscworld.com
2022-04-25 The Compleat Discography The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents compleatdiscography.page
2022-04-28 The Compleat Discography "The Amazing Maurice part 2" compleatdiscography.page
2022-12-05 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret "Butter Beans & Instant Oodles" (1/3) thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2022-12-12 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret "Narratively Satisfying Lever" (2/3) thetruthshallmakeyefret.com

Other appearances

To be added.

Adaptations

  • The Amazing Maurice - an animated movie - the first feature film adaptation of a Pratchett work - releasing in December 2022 (January 2023 in Australia and some other places).
  • The book was adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, and as a stage musical for schools by Matthew Holmes.

External links

Footnotes