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Terry pratchett the amazing maurice6/1/2023 ![]() Sky will release an animated version of the book in 2022, with Laurie as Maurice, Emilia Clarke as Malicia, the daughter of Bad Blintz’s mayor, Himesh Patel as Keith, Gemma Arterton as Peaches, one of the rats, and Hugh Bonneville as the mayor. But when the troupe arrive in the town of Bad Blintz – so named, according to Maurice, because it has a bath its people are very proud of – they discover something evil. A twist on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, it follows the story of Maurice, who with a group of talking rats, and a flute-owning boy, Keith, travels from town to town, infesting the streets with rats before charging the citizens to remove them. It was also the first novel for which he won a major award, taking the Carnegie medal in 2002. ![]() The Amazing Maurice was the 28th novel in Pratchett’s Discworld series, but the first written for children. ![]()
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