But when they get to a town that already has a rat problem, and things there are very strange, their scheme takes a turn. The rats of the Clan feel it too, and many become so afraid that they all but forget how to think and reason. Lodderhose, Diana (7 May 2021). " 'Doctor Who' Star David Tennant Joins 'The Amazing Maurice'; HBO Max Greenlights Spanish-Language Original 'García'; Channel 4 Axes 'The Circle' – Global Briefs". Deadline . Retrieved 30 June 2023.

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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. The book has been adapted for the stage twice: first by Stephen Briggs in 2003 and published by Oxford Playscripts, [5] then in 2011 as a musical by Matthew Holmes, published by Collins Musicals. [6] Both versions are designed for use in schools. Even if they had noticed, they probably wouldn’t have said anything. Details like that don’t fit in.My granny and my great-aunt were very famous story-tellers, you know,’ said Malicia eventually, in a strained little voice. ‘Agoniza and Eviscera Grim.’ This may be billed as a YA novel by the redoubtable Pratchett, but I'm just going to shrug. It's fun and funny and I will always look at this novel as a sly reference to Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, including multiple minds linked together to make a full intelligence. No, not wolves. RATS. Such a lovely image. 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. Many characters are animals, though there is ethnic diversity among the human characters, with one of the leads, Keith, having brown skin and voiced by Himesh Patel, a British Asian actor of Indian descent. Female character Malicia is clever, reads a lot, and is brave, adventurous, and good at problem solving, though at one point is told she talks too much. A passing comment reinforces traditional gender roles: "If I don't hear ladies screaming and running out of their kitchens ..." A male character is told he's not handsome enough for a love interest, which could support unhealthy looks-oriented stereotypes and expectations. Even the dumb-looking piper kid is starting to give Maurice static about scamming the populace with their fake plague of rats.

The Amazing Maurice review – perky Terry Pratchett adaptation

Also, I got fuddled with this book in the middle section, trying to figure out whether it’s really meant to be a children’s story or a weird children’s-story-for-adults thing. There are some very very oblique sexual references having to do with the more enlightened rats, and some other things that threw me off. Perhaps it’s that the rats are not quite “Mr. Bunnsy” enough for children- they walk and talk like story-book creatures, but they still pee on everything and eat each other and commit little ratty murders. And that’s troublesome. It’s also troublesome that the rats talk about philosophy, clearly not something we want children exposed to. I guess the easy-reading laugh-a-minute feel of most of the discworld books got diluted somehow in this one. Their quest leads them to the local rat catchers' headquarters where they find a secret passage to the basement filled with food. They also find Darktan and the other rats coming from the tunnels with the trap they found. Maurice correctly guesses that the rat catchers are trying to catch the rats alive to use them for entertainment, pitting dogs in rings with rats and betting on how fast they are killed. The rat catchers catch Sardines and use him for the ring but he is rescued by the others. Terry Pratchett’s first Discworld “story” designating it as written for children (followed by the wonderful Tiffany Aching sub-series) but I would submit this is YA territory, no warm fuzzy Disney moments here.The Amazing Maurice’ is the first animated feature film to be based on a Terry Pratchett novel – ‘ The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents’. The novel was the 28th in the Discworld® series and the first primarily written for a younger audience, winning the Carnegie Medal in 2001. Maurice tells a town of people that they have a plague of rats, illustrated by various rats terrorizing the townsfolk and convinces them to pay for Keith, the pied piper, to lead them outside of the town. Outside the town, the rats are revealed to be sentient and literate, working with Keith and Maurice to defraud towns. 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: