The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Hardcover)

from reading_fox

Another non-children's book. Anything that opens with "just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats." Is not just a children's story. Nominally it is a retelling of the famous Bavarian folk tales of the Pied Piper of Hame...

from pallavi11

I am sure there are many big, and important books about the nature of consciousness. I am sure they are full of big, and important ideas. And this is a little book. About rats, of all the things. And except for the swearing- in rat and cat languages- appropriate for kids. What is it that makes us...

from MrsLee

Maurice is a cat who suddenly finds himself "aware" and thinking. He meets some rats who are in the same predicament, and a boy who can play a tune on a pipe. Maurice is too clever by half. He has schemes. He may end by getting them all killed, or at least thrown out of another town by the Watch....

from pallavi11

I am sure there are many big, and important books about the nature of consciousness. I am sure they are full of big, and important ideas. And this is a little book. About rats, of all the things. And except for the swearing- in rat and cat languages- appropriate for kids. What is it that makes us...

from drrox

This is Pratchett's suitably offbeat-yet-thought-provoking spin on the tale of the Pied Piper, and yes the rats are the stars. In true Discworld tradition, these rats aren't just normal rats, they're magical rats. Or more accurately, rats that have spent too long poking round the Wizards' rubbish...