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Book Description
A wonderful new novel from the Carnegie Medal winner. A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel.
Up on the chalk downs known as The Wold, witches are banned -- ever since the Baron’s son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk is no good for magic.Continue
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blogcritics published on Thu, 23 Sep 2010
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The Wee Free Men
One of the reasons that the world of young adult fiction is so widely enjoyed and wildly popular is that writers often benefit from the restrictions imposed by the genre. Freed from the necessity of spurious sex scenes, liberated from the requirement ... (read full critics)
bookotron published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010
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Yes, you see this correctly, you're not doing a double take - this book is so cool, you'll want to own it in hardback AND paperback! Hardback for durability, paperback for portability...
To the story, then: Introduces Tiffany Aching, a pint-sized witch who must confront the queen of the Fae i ... (continue)
guaddess said on Sep 23, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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The Labirynth shot out was awesome. Just imagine the Wee free men in evening suits and bow ties...
In general, this is awesome, screws up all the fairy-tale ideas of faeries and makes you laugh to death.
Plus, the Chalk was probably inspired by the British South-West (the white horse is in Uffingto ... (continue)Redviper118 said on Jun 1, 2011 | Add your feedback
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Marco Piva said on Apr 28, 2010 | Add your feedback
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For fear of little men...
The Lancre Witches series gets renewed in this Young Adults' Discworld series... we leave the fair kingdom of Lancre to go on the Chalk where a new witch was born, and now that she's nine someone must break her the news!
She has First Sight and Second (and Third) Thoughts, she's in a hurry beca ... (continue)Nonethousand said on Sep 10, 2008 | Add your feedback
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Gaurav Chaturvedi said on Sep 25, 2007 | Add your feedback
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xYang said on Sep 10, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 279 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0552551864
- ISBN-13: 9780552551861
- Publisher: Corgi Books Limited
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2004
- Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Book Review: The Wee Free Men: The Beginning by Terry Pratchett Share
I was thrilled when HarperCollins sent me a review copy of Terry Pratchett's latest book compilation, The Wee Free Men: The Beginning. This handy paperback encompasses the first two tales in the Tiffany Aching series, The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full ... (read full critics)