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Discworld
Terry Pratchett
Doubleday (Transworld UK)
7 June 2012 / ISBN 9780857521217
Fantasy Juvenile and up
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Young Geoffrey
is sent away to stay with his Grand-mama in the city of Ankh-Morpork
while his mother has a baby. While he is there he finds out a number
of interesting things about the many things that can usefully be
done with poo. He even starts his own poo museum…
Anybody who has read Snuff (also reviewed on this site) will remember
Miss Felicity Beedle and her delightfully scatological books for
children. This is one of them, and it has been produced to look
just like an old fashioned children's book complete with marbled
endpapers, lots of line drawings and an attractively gold-blocked
cover. It is even written just like one, with its well-bred young
protagonist whose elder relations all have plenty of servants and
everybody knows their place. Geoffrey goes to the zoo and a lavatory
factory, investigates gardens and even meets Sir Harry Gold himself
in his quest to find out about what happens after a certain bodily
function. Terry Pratchett has the style off just right, a mixture
of his usual Discworld wit and what might be termed antique juvenile
literature. There are plenty of references to people, creatures
and places from the other books and we get to see a few new ones
too. It isn't quite the usual full-length novel but this author
has never been a person to do just one thing and anybody who has
enjoyed Where's
My Cow (also reviewed on this site) will like this too.
Clever and entertaining for a wide variety of ages.
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