From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series comes a comic and insightful trilogy about a race of four-inch-high heroes trying to make sense of a...
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From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series comes a comic and insightful trilogy about a race of four-inch-high heroes trying to make sense of a human-size world.
In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer remember--or even believe in--life beyond the Store walls.
Until the day a small band of nomes arrives at the Store from the Outside. Led by a young nome named Masklin, the Outsiders carry a mysterious black box (called the Thing), and they deliver devastating news: In twenty-one days, the Store will be destroyed.
Now all the nomes must learn to work together, and they must learn to think -- and to think BIG.
Part satire, part parable, and part adventure story par excellence, master storyteller Terry Pratchett's engaging trilogy traces the nomes' flight and search for safety, a search that leads them to discover their own astonishing origins and takes them beyond their wildest dreams.
Praise for the Bromeliad trilogy: "Witty, funny, wise, and altogether delightful."--Locus Magazine
Meet more of Sir Terry Pratchett's tiny-but-fierce heroes in the Discworld novel The Wee Free Men!
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 09/30/2003
Pages: 502
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.23w x 1.59d
ISBN: 9780060094935
Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 11/24/2003 pg. 66
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 101 - Superior,Well Above Average
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2004 pg. 101 - Superior,Well Above Average
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2003