The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

In the small town of Bad Blintz, a professional Pied Piper scheme begins to unravel when a girl with too much imagination and not enough caution starts asking questions the rat catchers don't want answered. Maurice the cat, his educated rodent companions, and a boy named Keith have been running their con profitably for some time, but Bad Blintz has a genuine rat problem and something far darker lurking beneath it. Terry Pratchett's Carnegie Medal-winning Discworld novel is a children's book that reads like a philosophical puzzle in a fairy-tale frame.

Stephen Briggs is the natural voice for Pratchett's Discworld, having narrated the majority of the series with an ear for the author's particular blend of comedy, pathos, and moral argument. His delivery of Maurice's streetwise pragmatism against the increasingly strange and threatening events in Bad Blintz keeps the tone calibrated for the broad age range Pratchett's work reaches. At just over six and a half hours, it is a brisk and rewarding audio experience.