Tiffany is told that these little men are the Nac Mac Feegles, who are rough and rowdy fae folk who speak in Scots.

She goes into town to visit a travelling teacher and comes upon Miss Tick, a witch who has been watching her. Using her brother Wentworth as bait, Tiffany ambushes the beast and cracks it with a frying pan, while Wentworth is completely unfazed, as he is unable to see either the little men or the monster. Suddenly a vile green monster, Jenny Greenteeth, appears in the water.

While playing by the river near her home, she sees two tiny blue, kilted men who warn her of a 'green heid' in the water. Tiffany Aching is a 9-year-old girl who literally sees things differently from others. While Terry Pratchett's first Discworld book for children, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents had swearing translated to rat language, in this book it is in the dialect of the Nac Mac Feegle which is taken from Scots and Scottish Gaelic.Īn illustrated edition of the novel, with pictures by Stephen Player, appeared in print on 2 October 2008. The final book in the series, The Shepherd's Crown, was released in 2015. A sequel, A Hat Full of Sky, appeared in 2004 (both books were republished in a combined edition, The Wee Free Men: The Beginning, in August 2010) a third book called Wintersmith appeared in 2006 and the fourth, I Shall Wear Midnight, was released in September 2010. It is labelled a 'Story of Discworld' to indicate its status as children's or young adult fiction, unlike most of the books in the Discworld series. The Wee Free Men is a 2003 comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, which takes place in his Discworld setting.

Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book 2004.

Center for Children's Books' Blue Ribbon.American Library Association's Best Book For Young Adults 2004.

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