The Wee Free Men

The Wee Free Men
First edition
AuthorTerry Pratchett
Cover artistPaul Kidby
LanguageEnglish
Series
  • Discworld
  • 30th novel – 1st Tiffany Aching story
Subject
GenreFantasy
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
2003
Awards
  • WH Smith Teen Choice Award 2003
  • American Library Association's Best Book For Young Adults 2004
  • Parenting Book of the Year Award 2003
  • Center for Children's Books' Blue Ribbon
  • Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book 2004[1]
ISBN0-385-60533-1
Preceded byNight Watch 
Followed byMonstrous Regiment 

The Wee Free Men is a 2003 comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, which takes place in his Discworld setting. 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. 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. The final book in the series, The Shepherd's Crown, was released in 2015.

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.

An illustrated edition of the novel, with pictures by Stephen Player, appeared in print on 2 October 2008.

  1. ^ "Locus YA Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 4 November 2011.