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May 12, 2010

BunWat rated it:

Wow this is terrific. Kudos to Stephen Player for his work on this illustrated version. It is such fun! The feegles run around the edges of the page, jump on words or dangle from the end of a line. There's page where the text talks about Tiffany seeing her face in the water, and what looks like a faint reflection of her face runs under the text on that page. There are documents and letters that are mentioned in the text and now they appear on the facing page, complete with handwriting on ye More...

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Sep 16, 2008

Matt rated it:

I'm a huge fan of dangerous books for boys. I love classic boys literature, whether Dumas's 'Count of Monte Cristo', Kipling's 'Jungle Book', Burroughs 'A Princess of Mars', Tolkien's 'The Hobbit', or Heinlein's juvenile fiction. I love good stories that instruct boys in being adults. I love them for being persistently politically incorrect, not just now but then. I love them because they are stories by people who obviously know boys and know what they need. And, I love them for just being More...

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Apr 08, 2011

Joel rated it:

This was my first Terry Pratchett book. If you a looking for a way into his Discworld series (which is, at last count, 1 million books long), you could do worse. It's a totally separate story arc. It's the first of a shorter sub-series, giving you someplace to go if you like it. It's YA, so it goes down easy. It stars a creative, capable heroine and is in no way about her love of boys, which is always refreshing (still, still this is refreshing). And it's funny.

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Mar 07, 2009

Qt rated it:

I was slightly disappointed with this one, at least at first; while neither boring nor slow-moving, it did seem like the plot took a while to really get going. It didn't really grab me and suck me in like some of the other Discworlds have. Still, the last third or so was interesting, and the bits on life and philosophy are always thought-provoking.
Also, it is much more "together" than the early Discworlds, more cohesive; everything fits together. It isn't as funny, though (but t More...

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Dec 23, 2008

Siria rated it:

I really, really wish that I had a younger girl cousin to pass this book onto, because I think it's a perfect antidote for some of the books that are enjoying a vogue right now (*cough* Twilight *cough*). Where the latter feature some downright disturbing gender politics, The Wee Free Men has a heroine who's sensible and smart and capable; a realistic, strong relationship between grandmother and granddaughter; a world where women are bounded by preconceptions and gender roles and fears, but a More...

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Nov 28, 2009

Steven rated it:

I’m presently about half way through reading this marvelous little book. People have been recommending Mr. Pratchett’s work to me for years, and I must say that I’m sorry I took so long to finally start one of his books. I did read Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch a while back, which he co-authored with Neil Gaiman, and that book was excellent, but I was going through my NG phase at the time, and moved on to several of Gaiman’s books after reading GO. In ret More...

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Dec 02, 2010

Marija rated it:

I’ll always remember that German friend of mine for his good taste in books and introducing me to the works of Peter Høeg and Terry Pratchett. :)

I haven’t read one of Terry Pratchett’s books in quite a while, and in preparation for my Goodreads giveaway win—Pratchett’s latest novel and 4th book in the Tiffany Aching series—I wanted to read the three earlier books to the series. After reading The Wee Free Men, I must say that I’d completely forgotten how much fun these books are!
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Sep 02, 2011

Anna rated it:

There is something about The Wee Fee Men that makes you want to read it over and over again. Perhaps it's how Tiffany actually acts like a nine year old child. Most authors under estimate the intelligence that a child can hold. Terry Pratchett has captured the very being of a child perfectly. Confident, curious, and intelligent Tiffany is so real that you can feel like she's sitting right next to you or that you've known her for your entire life. Like she's actually real. The thing the makes her More...

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Jul 19, 2008

Alicia rated it:

Just when you thought good writing in Scottish accents couldn't get any better -- ta-da!

I resisted reading this book for the longest time. I didn't want to have any truck with Terry Pratchett dumbing himself down for the masses -- or for the kiddies, either. Thankfully, if there was any dumbing going down, I didn't notice.

Instead, we get the most we've seen thus far of the Nac Mac Feegle, who are to be numbered among the greatest group literary creations ever, if only on More...

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Mar 22, 2008

Jessica rated it:

Brilliant! Or, should I say, Crivens! I love Terry Pratchett's work, and his latest endeavors into Takes-Place-On-Discworld-But-Isn't-A-Discworld-Novels are, if possible, even better than just your standard Discworld novels. If you could ever have a 'standard' Discworld novel...

Premise: A 9 year old proto-witch's little brother gets stolen by the evil Queen (or quin) of the Faeries. (what is with all the books with evil fae in them lately!). She has the makings of a powerful wit More...

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Mar 02, 2008

Beverly rated it:

From the review on my blog:
Pratchett takes all sorts of fairy tales and children's stories--including one of my faves, Peter Pan--and mashes them into his own tale about Tiffany, a nine-year-old witch in training. Tiffany is gutsy, smart (she's got First Sight and Second Thoughts; I need to develop both myself!), and ethical. In the same way I wanted to be Jo March when I first read Little Women, I can imagine any girl selecting Tiffany as a role model.

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Feb 10, 2009

Devon rated it:

As usual, Pratchett manages to explore meaty questions (the nature of reality, family love, the relationship between knowledge and magic and common sense) in the midst of very involved silliness, and the silliness is of a high order, indeed. this is one of the most cohesively plotted of the Disc World books--not that I am generally very picky about my Disc world books.

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Apr 10, 2009

Cindy rated it:

I just finished the audio version of this book and really enjoyed it. Tiffany Aching is tired of taking care of her little brother Wentworth. But when he's kidnapped by fairies, Tiffany decides to get him back. Maybe her recent decision to become a witch will help her on this. And then there's the Nac Mac Feegles - pictsies. They just might help. If they can stay sober long enough. And if she explains things in very, very simple terms.

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Jan 13, 2009

Dee rated it:

This is the first Terry Pratchett I read, and it is in the TP children's oeuvre: Maurice and his educated Rodents, the Tiffany Aching Trilogy, Johnny Maxwell trilogy, the Bromeliad trilogy, and I am wild about it. It has my favorite Pratchett devices: women who are close to the earth and have a kind of natural knowledge that extends into magic; love, a valiant girl, and unbelievably clever wordplay. I haven't had much success with my kids even up to 8th grade) reading this, and it is both wry More...

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Jan 17, 2012

kamelin rated it:

Ein Moment intensiver Wachheit [Hörbuch Rezension] - german review

Tiffany Weh, ein 'Milchmädchen', das mit ihren Eltern und Geschwistern auf einer Farm im Kreideland der Scheibenwelt lebt, möchte eine Hexe sein. Nachdem ihr kleiner Bruder 'Willwoll' verschwindet, macht sie sich mit einer Horde tapferer, blauer 'Wir-sind-die-Größten'-Kobolde und einer Bratpfanne bewaffnet auf die Suche nach ihm. Leichter gesagt als getan, denn der von Süssigkeiten dauernd klebrige Bruder
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Sep 24, 2011

Margarita rated it:

This book is not a summer book (slightly trashy fast-paced fiction to read by the pool) or a winter book (perfect for a rainy day-long and slow with lots of details) but an all-year-round book. The 30th book in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and first Tiffany Aching novel, The Wee Free Men features a nine-year-old farm girl named Tiffany who is good with cheese. Tiffany, however, is not demure or meek in any way-she spots a giant monster in the river near her house one day, and instead of ru More...

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Aug 11, 2011

Andy rated it:

For some unknown reason I've put off reading Pratchett's younger audience Discworld books. I read and enjoyed 'Amazing Maurice' when it came out but these recent stories just bypassed me. Turns out that was a big mistake.

The witches and the stories they found themselves in were always the richest to me. Sure, I love the Watch books for their character development and the Rincewind books for the humour but they all get a little 'samey' in the end. The witches though were intelligenc More...

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Aug 08, 2011

Corinne rated it:

Nine year old Tiffany Aching wants to be a witch. Not that she's not satisfied with her life on the farm - she loves the sheep and she's become quite an expert at cheese making. But she knows that magic is out there and she wants to learn to use it - especially once she meets the Nac Mac Feegle. Those are the Wee Free Men of the title - short, blue, hard drinking Scottish...guys. Pixies, really. They come to her aid when her (rather sticky) younger brother is stolen by an evil witch and Tif More...

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Aug 08, 2011

Kerfe rated it:

A rollicking tale, with a plucky girl front and center, and filled in on the edges with little blue men always spoiling for a good time and a fight.

My daughter lent me her copy, which she read and enjoyed in middle school, and though quite entertaining for an adult reader, I think Pratchett's book is particularly appropriate for a young adolescent. Lots of action and magic, but I like that the magic comes always kind of with an asterisk.

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Aug 05, 2011

Penny rated it:

I received an autographed copy of this book at ALA Annual, so I decided I really needed to read it! Terry Pratchett is this year's Margaret A Edwards award winner. His health prevented him from attending the Edwards luncheon in New Orleans, but we still got a copy of this fun book!

This book makes me smile, which is always a nice thing. Sometimes I weary of reading so many teen angst books -- dysfunctional families, suicides, alcohol and drug abuse, etc. etc. So this opening account More...

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Jun 16, 2011

Susanne rated it:

Ach crivens! Not the first Pratchett I’ve read, but this first part of the Tiffany Aching series made me fall in love with his writing. This is pure magic in a book. How one single human being can have such a load of imagination, humour, observational skills and eye for detail as Pratchett is a mystery to me. Everything in The Wee Free Men is alive - not just the characters, but the very land they walk on.

Initially I was a bit disappointed to find that the story was a version of the Sn More...

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Apr 05, 2011

cindy rated it:

CRIVENS!! Mr. Pratchett did it again!

Terry Pratchett memang dikenal sebagai penulis cerita fantasi yang penuh humor, dan dia membuktikannya lagi dalam buku ini. Tokoh utamanya adalah penyihir cilik Tiffany Aching sedangkan sidekicknya adalah sekumpulan makhluk setinggi 6 inchi -menamakan diri mereka Pria Cilik Merdeka (Wee Free Men)- yang hobi berkelahi, hobi mencuri, hobi mabuk, dan sangat yakin mereka sudah mati dan sedang berada di surga saat ini. Salah satu senjata andalan mereka More...

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Feb 23, 2011

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The Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (2003): The Wee Free Men (2003): As fairy-tale monsters - and little blue thieves - start appearing around her family’s farm, Tiffany Aching discovers that with training, she may grow up to be a witch. But before any formal training can begin she finds herself the world’s only defense against a magical threat, and with the help of the little blue men must enter a dream-like kingdom and battle an evil queen.

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Nov 25, 2010

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Oct 28, 2010

Chibineko rated it:

As a Pratchett fan, I knew that it was only going to be a matter of time before I eventually picked up the Tiffany Aching books. I put it off for a while because I've heard both good & negative things about the books, most of the negative remarks being about how it tends to be slightly different in tone than Pratchett's other books, we shich is true- the book is written slightly differently than his main Discworld series. (Not that most of the Discworld books couldn't be enjoyed by children- the More...

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Jun 24, 2010

Katie (It's Time to Read) rated it:

Synopsis:

"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back.""Why?" said Tiffany.

"There's no one to stop them.

There was silence for a moment.

Then Tiffany said, "There's me."

Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green More...

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Dec 20, 2009

Minli rated it:

“Yes,” said a voice, and Tiffany realized that it was hers again. The anger rose up, joyfully. “Yes! I’m me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don’t understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That’s the kind of person I am!”

Tiffany Aching is flipping awesome. The witches are awesome. Terry Pratchett is awesome. And cheese is awesome.

I have to say, wi More...

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Sep 21, 2009

Robert rated it:

Terry Pratchett has a real talent for making you think about the world, and for making readers smile.

This book is part of the Discworld series, and definitely targeted at Young Adults. Mind you, just about any Discworld book is probably good for young adults, but this one is probably for the younger end of that spectrum. There are more themes about being a sibling, dealing with grown-ups, and other such trials of youth; and fewer subtle jokes about sex and drinking (though just eno More...

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Sep 11, 2009

Alison rated it:

I never got into the Terry Pratchitt in college, even though I had a friend who has heavily into it. I was put off by Discworld because of the silliness and the puns, and I'd had my fill of that with Xanth.

Then, my friend Lyn lent me a book from the Tiffany Aching series. It wasn't this one; it was Wintersmith. (She said I would be able to follow it wthout the previous books, and she was right.)

Well, I loved that one so much I had to go right out and get this one, and I More...

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Aug 16, 2009

Lightreads rated it:

Young sheep farmer's daughter begins training to be the witch of the chalk hills that she loves. She has the help of a lot of six-inch fairies with drinking problems and pointy swords, which is good because there's no school for learning witchery, unless you think of the whole world as the school.

Oh, marvelous. I read the three published books straight through everywhere I went, and I know I disturbed people by standing there beaming in the elevator. There may also have been bouncing More...

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