I very much enjoyed Terry Pratchett’s first foray into young adult literature. I know he’s written a handful of YA books (many of them also set in the Discworld), but I wish he had written more. He was very good at it! One thing I loved as a kid, and which I still love now, is when children’s books have darker edges to them. Kids live in this world same as adults. They worry about death and violence and hunger. Like, kids are people, too, […]
“It was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28) by Terry Pratchett