By Kim Newman
All the fun of the fairies
For a while, the estimable Terry Pratchett divided his time between writing the Discworld series of comic fantasies for notional adults, and unrelated novels “for younger readers”. Of late, perhaps mindful that his readers young and old tend not to make the same distinctions, he has been erasing demarcation lines. A Hat Full of Sky, a sequel to The Wee Free Men, has “a story of Discoworld” on the cover but is identifiable as a supposed children’s book mostly by the fact that it has 11-year-old Tiffany Aching as protagonist.
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