Leave aside that I cry when I see snow for the first time each year. Forget that the coldest season is practically my deity. Hat Full of Sky, the sequel, received the same treatment from me.Then I saw mister Pratchett in person during his tour for the third Tiffany Aching book, Wintersmith. I may love almost all the novels based in The Disc World, but I didn't much feel like reading something that would likely make me feel patronized. I discounted Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men when it first hit bookshelves. Tiffany’s mentors, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, star in the novels Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, and Carpe Jugulum.Īnd don’t miss Terry Pratchett’s hilarious and wise Discworld novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, winner of the Carnegie Medal! Read more The five funny and fabulous Tiffany Aching adventures are: Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle-aka the Wee Free Men-a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * Horn Book Fanfare Book * Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice * SLJ Best Book of the Yearīy the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.Ī nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality.Īrmed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland.

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