Wintersmith, the third in the series, was published in 2006. Tiffany shows them that she deserves her training: the title of the book alludes to the fact that you don’t need to own a fancy black hat to prove who you are. This is no easy task, since the witches are tough: they are the protagonists of their own stories in the adult Discworld, have lots of power and lots to say about her. It features an 11-year old Tiffany Aching, who must leave her chalk country and train with the best witches in the Discworld, the witches of Lancre. After this encounter, which leaves her firmly convinced that your personal problems must be solved by yourself, Tiffany goes on to the next book to be trained as a witch.Ī Hat Full of Sky came out in 2004, and it’s set two years after The Wee Free Men.

Introducing a band of fascinating and bluish rogues – the Nac Mac Feegle – it follows the adventures of a very young Tiffany Aching, who sets to recover her spoiled brother from the realm of the Queen of the Fairies, (a very nasty lady). The book won a Carnegie Medal the very same year.

The rats are learning to read, and Maurice the cat likes to think himself as the leader of the group. The story is somewhat dark, (they find a place where rats are hunted viciously, and set to find out why), full of adrenaline and witty dialogue. A twisted take on the Plied Piper, it follows a very intelligent cat, some incredibly brilliant rats, and a boy who plays the flute, in their adventures from town to town, where they do a “rat plague” scam. His first YA book set in that world was The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, published in 2001. It was in the last part of his life that he decided to aim for a younger audience, including some young characters and stories in the fantasy Discworld series. Pratchett, who passed away earlier this week, was a terrific writer, with more than seventy titles to his name, most of them for adults. And that’s a pity, because in the case of Sir Terry Pratchett, they would have absolutely loved him: his fantastic sense of humor, his views of the world, and his brilliant arguments are something everybody should know about. You may argue that in these times of over-exposure and movie adapting fame, they do recognize and know who the writer is (like Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy), but they probably don’t relate to them. It is with some surprise that most kids realize a person is behind some of their favorite stories. Usually when you read books as a kid, you don’t care whether the author is alive or dead.

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