Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: A Slip of the Keyboard по повод получаването му на медала „Карнеги“ за „Изумителният Морис…“. Той казва, че тази книга е за плъхове, които са интелигентни, но в нея се среща и още по-фантастичната идея, че човешките същества може би също са способни да мислят. И си струва да се пробва, тъй като вече сме опитали всичко друго. Аз бих добавила, че това е и приказка за нещата, които хората научават, когато не говорят много-много, а наблюдават внимателно, а също така и приказка за дамските чанти и тяхното чудно съдържание. Или както би казала Злобина Грим, това е „приказка за приказките“. И като всяка добра приказка и тази не свършва просто някак, а намеква, че всеки край може да е и начало: Maurice asks Malicia about the fairy tales, "stories about little people with wings that go tinkle-tinkle?" a reference to Tinkerbell in James Barrie's novel Peter Pan. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 90-minute dramatisation in 2003, adapted by Peter Kerry and directed by Chris Wallis, which was repeated on BBC 7 on June 2, 2007 and April 27, 2008. The character of Dangerous Beans was voiced by David Tennant. Darktan's voice was a spoof version of Sean Connery's Scottish burr. The narrator in the adaptation was Maurice himself, describing to Dangerous Beans how they arrived at the perilous situation near the end of the plot. Quotes from Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure, which appear as chapter heads in the book, were read by the character Peaches. To mark the occasion of Terry Pratchett's knighthood, it was broadcast on BBC 7 again, along with other dramatisations of his work, in February 2009. Keith, (Maurice's pet human) just never got more that a 'meh' from me, my heart was all with the rats come the end.

Magical Flutist: Invoked by Maurice and his gang and later invoked and subverted by the real Piper. Used positively at the end: rather than the humans simply accepting the rats and going into a Happily Ever After ending, the rats (with Maurice as their agent) have to broker a complex set of contracts, peace treaties and amendments to the town charter to ensure that this human-rodent cooperation is going to work. The book is funny, but more importantly, characters surprise us with their depth. Darktan, the toolbelt-swathed engineering-wizard rat, has a crisis of faith about his role as a leader. Other rats in his Clan are hammering out rules for ethical living, much to sharpster Maurice's disgust.The voice of the King Rat in the walls and inside Maurice, the rats and the rat catchers' heads saying such things as " come CLOSER", "WHAT! CAT! CAT! KILL! resonates with JK Rowling's, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the basilisk in the drains of Hogwarts which Harry hears. Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers...

At the end of the novel, Maurice leaves his rodents behind and finds a child to whom he asks "Hey, stupid looking kid. You wanna be lord mayor? No, down here kid" and goes off to start a new adventure.And it’s very nearly the smallest bedroom. There are practically no cupboards and I’m running out of bookshelf space!’ Probably the wrong place,’ she said. ‘I’ll just rest my arm innocently on this coat hook.’ A sudden door in the wall completely failed to happen.

Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my FINISHING THE SERIES! list. Near the beginning of the book, the protagonists learn that the rat catchers keep people away while they're working by spreading a story that rats carry a plague that will make your legs fall off. Near the end, when the Rat Piper arrives, one of the town guards warns his colleague to be polite because it's said that if you annoy the Rat Piper he can blow a special note on his pipe that will make your legs fall off; his colleague replies, "Oh, like the plague?" Early-Bird Cameo: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (and their scam) were first mentioned in Reaper Man, although most people reading it assumed Maurice was a human conman who trained rats.It also shows what happens when an ingenious writer doesn´t just write for young audiences from the beginning of his career, but decides to give it a try after having written extremely complex and subtle fantastic comedy for adults over decades. It´s wonderful, it´s kind of even denser than the Discworld, because there are no longer introspections, dialogues, and philosophizing about ethics, morality, and the nature of good and evil, just easy fun and entertainment.

Maurice pounces on the Death of Rats to protect Dangerous Beans, then stands there with the Grim Squeaker in his mouth, stunned by the realization of how much trouble he's bound to be in for... Nourishing's desperate pleas for Darktan to wake up, she's gotten him out of the trap, are reminiscent of Bigwig's rescue from a snare in Watership Down. Both rescues are made possible because a young, not-too-competent character chewed through part of the trap. Dangerous Beans is also a close parallel to Fiver, that book's Waif Prophet. urn:lcp:amazingmauricehi0000prat:epub:ce7dae69-623e-4231-9bf9-05878c62393c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier amazingmauricehi0000prat Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9d595s8c Invoice 1652 Isbn 0060012358 Malicia says to Maurice, "I mean,you don't wear boots and sword and have a big hat with a feather in it," a reference to the story of Puss in Boots, the most popular version by Charles Perrault, a b Ramachandran, Naman (5 November 2020). "Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke to Voice Terry Pratchett Adaptation 'The Amazing Maurice' ". Variety. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020 . Retrieved 7 November 2020.In Dec. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. A 'Special Edition' by Corgi Children's contains an introduction by Rob Wilkins and a look at how Terry Pratchett first imagined 'The Amazing Maurice.' Dangerous Beans, the rats' spiritual leader, is crushed by the realization that the rats are just mindless animals at heart, and leaves with his assistant Peaches.