Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats — strangely educated rats.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.EVIL.It's not a game any more. It’s a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. ‘Terry Pratchett is one of the great inventors of secondary — or imaginary or alternative — worlds … he has the real energy of the primary storyteller’ The Times ‘One of the best and funniest authors alive’ Independent ‘The Dickens of the twentieth century’ Mail on Sunday ‘Fans look to him for brilliantly funny dialogue, high peaks of imagination and a sense of participating in events which are strange, yet filled with everyday occurrences — the real world in disguise’ The Times Illustrations by David Wyatt Annotations collected and edited by Leo Breebaart.The book’s text has been translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence system. In most cases, the translation is accurate and clear, but occasionally there may be incorrect phrasing or individual words left untranslated.