I first read this last July and enjoyed it very much. I
just heard that a sequel is due in June, and so I pulled it out and read
it to Jane, who also enjoyed it very much. I won’t say much about it
(you can read the earlier review) but there are a few points worth
mentioning.

First, it’s a Discworld book; but it’s also a juvenile. I’ve generally only seen
it in the young adult’s section of the bookstore; so even if you’re a Discworld
fan you might have missed it. Hie to a bookstore (or, more likely, to
Amazon.com) and order it! (Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg have cameos.)

Second, it contains one of his best lines in a long time–one
of the ones that doesn’t hit you until you’re already a couple of
sentences past it: “The universe is a lot more complicated than it looks
from the outside.” Think about that for a while.