Series
Discworld had been a comic fantasy series for adults, inaugurated by The Colour of Magic in 1983. Amazing Maurice was marketed as a children's book, to be followed in that respect by The Wee Free Men (2003, #30). It differs from most Discworld novels also by its division into chapters. Contrary to the contrast between adult and child markets, reflected in catalogues, The Guardian observed on the occasion of the Carnegie Medal that "he main audience for Pratchett's 48 books, all busily in print, is teenagers, who are drawn by his irrepressible invention and sense of mischief."
Maurice and his Educated Rodents were not entirely new; they had been mentioned as early as Reaper Man (1991, #11).
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