Just read this book as we are trying to complete our collection of books by Terry Pratchett and my overall impression of it is this book is a deserving winner of the Carnegie Medal (in 2001).
The obvious twist on the Pier Piper story aside, the book has some witty dialogue and a particularly memorable 'torture' scene, when the boy and girl team need information from a couple of ratcatchers. Of course, the concept of a downtrodden group/race/club is nothing new, and the only drawback is the rather convinient happy ending. Still, this is an enjoyable book which I'd happily read again, if anything, just to see everything from a cat's perspective ("I ask my food to say something before i eat it ok?" LOL)
In other news, we caught part 1 of Hogfather on cable, thanks to the National Day offer (almost all channels available), which stuck fairly closely to the book version.
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