17/12/2022
“The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it. And as far as Maurice was concerned, the rats were thinking a good deal too much...”
The Book Fairies are excited for the new film , based on the Terry Pratchett novel - so we are sharing copies of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents all around the UK this week! Will you be lucky enough to find a copy to read before you see the new film?
This copy is hidden in our little library right here at Bradleigh Books! 👀 let us know if you find it! 🔎
About the book:
Rats! They’re everywhere: in the breadbins, dancing across tabletops, stealing pies from under the cooks’ noses. So what does every town need? A good piper to lure them away.
That’s where Maurice comes in. But he’s only a cat (though one that talks), so although he has the ideas, he needs rats and someone to play the pipe. Who better than the kid to play the pipe? And Dangerous Beans. And Peaches. And Hamnpork (who doesn’t really like what’s been happening since The Change; all a rat leader really needs is to be big and stroppy, thinking is just not his thing). And Darktan. And Sardines. And all the others in the Clan.
Then they arrive in Bad Blintz, which is suffering from a plague of rats, and find there are NO rats anywhere (though the two resident rat catchers seem to have plenty of tails to show, at 50 pence per tail).
Someone else has had ideas, and Maurice is not pleased.
The new film is available in cinemas nationwide AND on Sky Cinema to enjoy at home from 16th December 2022. Enjoy!
