Hi there, my name is Adam Alimi. I'm a 13-year old kid who has made a book review about Wee Free Men written by Terry Pratchett (totally not forced by my mother *cough* *cough*).
My review of the Wee Free Men:
Wee Free Men is the tale of a girl named Tiffany Aching who wants to be a witch but finds that it is much more about using your head and not about waving your wand around and casting magic spells.
Wee Free Men is part of a five-book series which stars Tiffany Aching and her acquaintances, the Nac Mac Feegles.
Tiffany Aching is a 9-year old farm girl who is a very quick thinker. She is often very quiet and very observant. One day she meets a clan of pictsies (not to be confused with pixies) who call them-selves, the Wee Free Men. She finds that her world is being invaded by magical creatures from a different world and she decides that it is her job to deal with this. This will be her first step to becoming a real witch.
The Nac Mac Feegles are my second favourite character (being second to RatBag the cat) because they are so rib-crackingly hilarious. The Feegles are small tiny blue men with red messy hair and equally messy beards. When I say, small I mean really, small like 6 inches tall. Don’t get in a fight with them, they will beat you into a pulp without batting an eye. Even though they are very strong, they aren’t exactly the brightest bulbs in the box. For examples in one scene in the book they drank lamp oil thinking it was alcohol. Instead of blaming them-selves for doing that they blamed the person who owned the bottle. This is what the Nac Mac Feegles said about it, “An’ things ha’ come to a pretty pass, ye ken, if people are going to leave stuff like that aroound where innocent people could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off ‘f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!”.
This book has a very important lesson that I personally find eye-opening. It tells us that we need to do things that others can’t do and speak for those who don’t have a voice. We need to be the bigger people and not expect rewards for the work we do.
Wee Free Men is a story about being the bigger person. Doing jobs that don’t have thanks, and using your head to think things through. Once you read the first book, you will want to read the whole set until you finish.
