When worlds collide, it's Tiffany to the rescue in Pratchett's latest children's fantasy. From: The Washington Post | Date: May 11, 2003| Author: Michael Dirda | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

THE WEE FREE MEN

By Terry Pratchett

HarperCollins. 263 pp. $16.99

Last year Terry Pratchett won Britain's Carnegie Medal for the best children's book of the year. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents focused on the adventures of its clever hero, a feline con artist who runs a Pied Piper scam with a troupe of talking rats and a street urchin who plays the flute. Pratchett naturally set this fantasy on his best-known creation, the Discworld, a kind of alternate Earth...

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