Laurence King Publishing will produce two new gifts for the forthcoming The Amazing Maurice Film.
The film – produced by Cantilever Media and Ulysses Filmproduktion in co-production with Sky – is based on Terry Pratchett's novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001), the first Discworld novel for children, which won the Carnegie Medal in 2001.
Contos says: "I'm thrilled to be working on these games to help kids enjoy the world of The Amazing Maurice, Bad Blintz, and the rat king. It's the first-ever animated feature film based on a novel by Terry Pratchett and it's a fantastic way of introducing younger audiences to his work. I watched the rough cut with my 7-year-old and he loved it, in spite of the fact that it was only a third finished – I can't wait to see the finished film and it's going to be so much fun exploring the world of the novel further in the jigsaw puzzle and matching game. It's like a cross between Ratatouille and Robin Hood, with the spirited Malicia as narrator giving lots of hilarious asides direct to camera."