The Carpet People
Author(s): Terry Pratchett
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet-That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power-hungry mouls - and of two Munrung brothers, who set out on an amazing adventure. Co-written by Terry Pratchett, aged seventeen, and master storyteller, Terry Pratchett, aged forty-three.
Product Information
"Only a writer with a masterstroke of imagination could place an entire empire of goodies and baddies within the fronds of a carpet."
-"Daily Mail
"
"Brilliantly funny dialogue, high peaks of imagination."
--"The Times"
"A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages."
--"Daily Telegraph"
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
General Fields
- :
- : Random House Children's Books
- : 0.134
- : 01 May 2004
- : 178mm X 110mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Terry Pratchett
- : Paperback
- : B
- : 192
- : Fantasy & magical realism