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 text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.