The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Kobo blurb
Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money.

Until they run across someone playing a different tune.

Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . .

I really loved this story for being a kids' story that didn't condescend. I found it as edgy as Dahl, but without the malicious edge that often seems part of his work. And as someone who is constantly irked by the brothers Grimm being remembered as "tale tellers" instead of "painstaking, ground-breaking linguistic researchers", I loved the Grim sisters. A fun retelling of the Hameln story, with Pratchett's trademark humour, but (possibly because of its target age group) less overtly political than many of his works of the same era.

Kobo $9.62CDN, $11.99AUD, £4.99GBP, unable to find US price
Kindle: AU $11.99 (possibly USD), £4.99GBP, CDN$8.99 - may be unavailable at Amazon US?