Tiffany figures if she were to wish to marry a handsome prince, she’d step out the door to find a “stunned prince, a tied-up priest, and a Nac Mac Feegle grinning cheerfully and ready to act as best man”.

I never knew you had to be careful when making a wish. It includes some lovely moralistic lessons that are well presented to catch children’s attention.Īh, the people of the Chalk “knowing” that witches dance around without their drawers on which worried Tiffany until Miss Tick said “you could if you wanted to but only if you were certain where all the nettles, thistles, and hedgehogs were”. I do enjoy this subseries and think it’s very appropriate for kids. Second in the Tiffany Aching fantasy subseries and thirty-second within the overall Discworld fantasy series. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Wee Free Men, The Color of Magic, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, Equal Rites, Mort, The Shepherd's Crown, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Small Gods, A Blink of the Screen, Reaper Man

It is part of the, series and is a fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by HarperCollins on Jand has 407 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Note: the other books in the series are ' The Wee Free Men' and ' Wintersmith'.I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. So I don't think there's any upper age-limit to this book. But there's no condescending easy language, no sense of it being intended for the young or for those who struggle with reading. So yes, it would be entirely suitable for younger children, particularly girls since the heroine is an 11-year-old girl called Tiffany. I suppose the plot is less complex than most Discworld books too, and there's a pleasant lack of bawdiness and double entendres. It's shorter than most Discworld books, of course, and, unusually for Terry Pratchett, it has chapters. It's the latest book I read aloud to my teenage sons, age 18 and 16. There are no children in our house, but this book has just been very much enjoyed by three of us. This all sounds rather unpleasant, but there's plenty of humour - and it has to be remembered that Discworld witches are more like wise women and herbalists than magicians.

Meanwhile a 'hiver', a rather nasty non-creature of demonic variety, is trying to take over her mind. It's also a direct sequel to ' The Wee Free Men', and is almost certainly better for having read that first.Īs for the story: Tiffany Aching, who also starred in 'The Wee Free Men', goes to train as a witch. 'A Hat Full of Sky' by Terry Pratchett is supposedly a children's Discworld book.

A hatful of sky