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  • Paperback: 317 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Childrens; New edition edition (29 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552549053
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552549059
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When you have an author as good as Terry Pratchett writing for children, you expect that the result will be a novel of great invention, assured comic timing and a generally all-round highly readable fantasy tour de force. Readers of The Wee Free Men will not be disappointed. After winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal award for his previous story of Discworld for younger readers, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Pratchett has followed up with another irresistibly entertaining adventure.

Miss Perspicacia Tick, a witch of some renown, is worried about a ripple in the walls of the universe--probably another world making contact. Which is not good. This errant activity is centred on some chalk country--where traditionally good witches simply do not grow well. Fortunately, Miss Tiffany Aching of Home Farm on The Chalk, nine years old, misunderstood and yearning for excitement, wants to be a witch and has just proved herself to be of great potential by whacking a big Green Monster from the river with a huge frying pan while using her annoying younger brother as bait. Miss Tick is impressed. So, after travelling to the chalky downs at once and dispensing some stop gap advice to Tiffany about holding the fort until she gets back with more help, Miss Tick is off.

Any hesitation Tiffany may have had about the seriousness of the situation expires when the Queen of the fairies kidnaps her younger brother. With the help of a talking frog, loaned by Miss Tick, and an army of thieving, warmongering, nippy, boozy wee free men called the Nac Mac Feegle (who used to work for the Queen but rebelled), Tiffany sets off rescue her kin.

There's humour at every turn, and the situations that follow are both wonderfully dramatic and preposterously unreal. Pratchett really is the master of his genre and it's difficult to imagine a more entertaining read. (Age 10 and over) --John McLay --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Nine year old Tiffany is in trouble she's armed only with a frying pan, her Grandma's dubious book of magic and, strangest of all, tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free men, who have come looking for a new hag.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Usual Pratchet Brilliance, 22 July 2004
By A. Parsons (Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wee Free Men (Paperback)
Terry Pratchet has never failed to produce a funny, intelligent and compulsive Discworld Novel. This is no exception, though for some reason it's styled a 'Story of Discworld' (is there a 'the' missing there?), for the life of me I can't see why, except that there's chapters in this book which feel a bit weird to someone who's read all the Discworld series. There are many familiar themes here, other worlds encroaching onto the Discworld is for example is a regular occurence, especially in some of the earlier books, and of course the fact that witchcraft is mainly psychology. Pratchet has also chosen another determined young lady as a heroine, one who will remind many readers of Susan Sto-Helit. The best things about this book are the Nac Mac Feegle 'Nae king! Nae Quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!'. Pratchet again shows his egalitarian streak by having a whole clan full of what are essentially a collective of heroes, while the villain is a Queen, there's also a rather traditional, pompous and brainless lord of the manor. The other nice touch is the Chalk, Pratchet consistently sets stories in the Discworld's multifarious countries or geograffic regions which bear more than a passing resemblence to places on our own world. Just when you think he must be running out of countries (China,Tibet,Australia and Eastern Europe have all featured recently) he changes tack completely and we have the Chalk (possibly the south downs?). It is of course Pratchet's genius to see what's comical and important (and sometimes both at the same time) in the detail. I enjoyed this book imensely and though it's true that Terry Pratchet sometimes covers the same ground in some of his books it is in the telling of the stories that Pratchet shines and often his messages are so important (don't misstreat people just because they are different, for example) that they are worth repeating. Read this Book it's brilliant
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!, 21 Sep 2004
This review is from: The Wee Free Men (Paperback)
Having not read a lot of Terry's work I thought I would give this book a try. I was not dissapointed it was rich with imagination, dark humour and enough of a plot to keep you going to the end. I would recommend this book to young teenagers but older people, like myself, can enjoy just as much! Very good book.
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59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A book of Discworld worth a place on your bookshelf, 27 Mar 2003
By J. Anthony "dwmoook" (Reading, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wee Free Men (Discworld Novels) (Hardcover)
The Wee Free Men is Terry's second children's novel set on the Discworld. The story is about Tiffany Aching, a nine year old who lives and works with her family on a sheep farm located in a place know locally as 'The Chalk'.

Once a lonely old lady with no teeth was wrongly accused of being a witch and of cooking and eating the Baron's son. The old lady was turned out of her house and left to die in the winter. Tiffany knew the old lady was innocent because she only had a small oven (so couldn't possibly cook a person in it) and unexpectedly decided to become a witch to prevent this sort of thing happening again.

Being the youngest of the girls in the family Tiffany spends a lot of time looking after Wentworth, her little brother. When Wentworth is taken by an evil Queen, Tiffany decides to get him back. Armed only with her wits and the Nac Mac Feegle, Tiffany enters Fairyland on a quest to rescue her brother.

Being "a story of Discworld" Fairyland is not a very nice place. It is full of nasty creatures and is very difficult to get out of.

With this book Terry gets the opportunity to develop the background and culture of the Nac Mac Feegle (the titular Wee Free Men) to whom we were introduced in Carpe Jugulum. We discover that the Nac Mac Feegle used to live in Fairyland but were thrown out for being too rowdy and that they have a hatred of lawyers.

Tiffany is a very strong character and acts much older than her age. I imagine that Granny Weatherwax was probably like Tiffany as a child. She is sensible, intelligent and always carries a piece of string in case it may come in handy.

The Wee Free Men follows a single storyline and therefore doesn't
have the complexity of some of the Discworld novels. This makes the book much easier to read. On first reading I didn't want to put the book down.

The UK edition sports a Paul Kidby cover featuring the Nac Mac
Feegle and a small china shepherdess Tiffany won at a fete. The US edition features a highly stylised version of the Nac Mac Feegle attacking a sheep.

Each chapter in the UK book includes a small picture relevant to the chapter whilst the US version I saw didn't. I am unsure whether this will change for the final book.

I found The Wee Free Men to be highly entertaining and well worth a place on your bookshelf.

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Another great title fromTerry, although aimed at the childrens market this book is thoroughly entertaining and complements the disc World novels. Highly recommended.
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