The Wee Free Men: The Beginning (Tiffany Aching Series #1 & 2)

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When Tiffany Aching sets out to become a witch, she faces ominous foes and gains unexpected allies. As she confronts the Queen of Fairies and battles an ancient, bodiless evil, she is aided (and most ably abetted) by the six-inch-high, fightin', stealin', drinkin' Wee Free Men!

Laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking action combine in the books that launched the unforgettable adventures of a determined young witch and her tiny but fierce blue friends.

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Overview

When Tiffany Aching sets out to become a witch, she faces ominous foes and gains unexpected allies. As she confronts the Queen of Fairies and battles an ancient, bodiless evil, she is aided (and most ably abetted) by the six-inch-high, fightin', stealin', drinkin' Wee Free Men!

Laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking action combine in the books that launched the unforgettable adventures of a determined young witch and her tiny but fierce blue friends.

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This combines two Pratchett novels (The WFM and Hatful of Sky) in one gem of a read. Believe me when I tell you that it's funnier - and more fun—than how this review reads. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching has always felt the pull of the supernatural, especially when her granny was around. But she is throttled into hurry-up-offense-witch-in-training mode when the wicked Queen of Fairies kidnaps her little brother. Tiffany has the upper hand, though, because she has a magical toad and the help of the Mac Nac Feegle—hundreds of six-inch-tall rowdy Scots-Irish badasses as good-looking as "a hat full of knuckles" and all over blue from excessive tattooing. If you like Pratchett, you're lucky because he can singlehandedly stock a small library, and he is a wise enough writer to provide a happy escape for readers. And after a long day at the office, sitting in your same broken chair with your same scuffed shoes reading over the thousandth memo about cutting costs ("No more staples!" <3, The Boss), a mini-escape is a dandy solution for what ails ye. A cuppa, your snuggie, and a little Terry P. takes your mind miles away with just the mental break you need to get back in there and face another day doing whatever the hell it is you think you do—even if it's during lunch in your truck with your Rosie-O-Donnell-silhouetted mudflaps. The Aching saga continues with Wintersmith (2006) and wraps with I Shall Wear Midnight (2010). Honorable mention: the prolific Jack Vance. I still spend pleasant evenings with my tattered Ace Double of Monsters in Orbit/The Moon Moth and Other Stories. — Douglas Lord, "Books for Dudes," Booksmack! 1/6/11

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062012173
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/24/2010
  • Pages: 576
  • Sales rank: 128,807
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Series: Discworld Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.80 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett is one of the world's most popular authors. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 75 million copies worldwide and have been translated into nearly forty languages. In 2009 Queen Elizabeth II knighted Pratchett in recognition of his "services to literature." Sir Terry lives in England.

Biography

Welcome to a magical world populated by the usual fantasy fare: elves and ogres, wizards and witches, dwarves and trolls. But wait—is that witch wielding a frying pan rather than a broomstick? Has that wizard just clumsily tumbled off the edge of the world? And what is with the dwarf they call Carrot, who just so happens to stand six-foot six-inches tall? Why, this is not the usual fantasy fare at all—this is Terry Pratchett's delightfully twisted Discworld!

Beloved British writer Pratchett first jump-started his career while working as a journalist for Bucks Free Press during the '60s. As luck would have it, one of his assignments was an interview with Peter Bander van Duren, a representative of a small press called Colin Smythe Limited. Pratchett took advantage of his meeting with Bander van Duren to pitch a weird story about a battle set in the pile of a frayed carpet. Bander van Duren bit, and in 1971 Pratchett's very first novel, The Carpet People, was published, setting the tone for a career characterized by wacky flights of fancy and sly humor.

Pratchett's take on fantasy fiction is quite unlike that of anyone else working in the genre. The kinds of sword-and-dragon tales popularized by fellow Brits like J.R.R. Tolkein and C. S. Lewis have traditionally been characterized by their extreme self-seriousness. However, Pratchett has retooled Middle Earth and Narnia with gleeful goofiness, using his Discworld as a means to poke fun at fantasy. As Pratchett explained to Locus Magazine, "Discworld started as an antidote to bad fantasy, because there was a big explosion of fantasy in the late '70s, an awful lot of it was highly derivative, and people weren't bringing new things to it."

In 1983, Pratchett unveiled Discworld with The Color of Magic. Since then, he has added installments to the absurdly hilarious saga at the average rate of one book per year. Influenced by moderately current affairs, he has often used the series to subtly satirize aspects of the real world; the results have inspired critics to rapturous praise. ("The most breathtaking display of comic invention since PG Wodehouse," raved The Times of London.) He occasionally ventures outside the series with standalone novels like the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, a sci fi adventure sequence for young readers, or Good Omens, his bestselling collaboration with graphic novelist Neil Gaiman.

Sadly, in 2008 fans received the devastating news that Pratchett had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. He has described his own reaction as "fairly philosophical" and says he plans to continue writing so long as he is able.

Good To Know

Pratchett's bestselling young adult novel Only You Can Save Mankind was adapted for the British stage as a critically acclaimed musical in 2004.

Discworld is not just the subject of a bestselling series of novels. It has also inspired a series of computer games in which players play the role of the hapless wizard Rincewind.

A few fun outtakes from our interview with Pratchett:

"I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat…colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up."

"The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

"I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener and it's in the blood. Grew really good chilies this year.

"I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not ‘celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

    1. Also Known As:
      Terence David John Pratchett
    2. Hometown:
      Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
    1. Date of Birth:
      April 28, 1948
    2. Place of Birth:
      Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
    1. Education:
      Four honorary degrees in literature from the universities of Portsmouth, Bristol, Bath and Warwick

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