Too bad they pick Bad Blintz, a town in the wild and woolly Überwald region that has its own problems. The rats - guided by strong leaders like Hamnpork and Darktan, deep thinkers like Peaches and Dangerous Beans, and a tap-dancing ne’er-do-well named Sardines - are saving to buy a boat and sail away to a desert island, where they can build a new society of sentient rats.īut their newfound conscience is troubling them, so they decide the next town will be their last. The cat wants the money to save up for his retirement. As Maurice points out, they’re giving value for money - and charging a fraction of what the real rat piper does - and no one gets hurt. Together they visit town after town, creating a bogus “plague of rats,” then waltzing out of town in procession behind the pipe-playing boy and, later, splitting up the money the townspeople paid him to do his thing. To start with, the piper is a stupid-looking boy named Keith who travels around with a cat named Maurice and a clan of rats that have somehow been given the ability to think and talk like people. Based loosely on the classic tale of the Pied Piper, it takes off in a completely new direction. This Carnegie-Award-winning children’s book is another stand-alone tale based in the fertile soil of Pratchett’s legendary Discworld, though not a part of the Discworld series as such.
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