The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents

241 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2001 by HarperCollins, Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-001233-5
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5 stars (1 review)

A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.

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5 stars

Maurice is a talking cat that has his own group of rats following him, as well as a boy. Together they get rich by pretending to save towns from rats. But their last job goes very wrong. There's something else in the shadows of their new town...

I listened to the new Audible version that isn't available in Goodreads yet. I wasn't expecting the book to be scary, but it is made for Halloween! Peter Seratinowicz does a very good narration job (the rat king whispers are scary good, but not good in noisy transports - be warned!). A brilliant story about stories. The short note from Rob Wilkins at the end is also worth it.

Subjects

  • Rats -- Fiction.
  • Cats -- Fiction.
  • Musicians -- Fiction.
  • Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
  • Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
  • Humorous stories.