Terry Pratchett - suitable for a 10-yr old?

[florenceuk]

DS (10) loves Terry Pratchett. He has read all the kid's books and is now wanting to move onto the Discworld novels. Has anybody actually read these books (I have never touched one) - is there anything "unsuitable" in any of them? They look harmless enough to me. DS fairly oblivious to most relationship stuff (he refers to it as "marrying"), so mild innuendo probably OK!

Aaaah. Good Omens, superb book. Crawley is a fantastic character. I do love TP.

Nope, I can't remember the c word anywhere - its just not TPs style.

My DD is 12 and we've read all the junior TPs except 'I shall wear midnight' (which I'm going to get her for xmas) and Johnny and the Dead because I can't find it. I say 'we' because she still likes me to read to her at bedtime so that's when I choose books I like too. Having exhausted the available supply we're now halfway into The Colour of Magic - we tried it last year and she didn't get into it (it does take an awfully long time to get into) but this year she's evidently hooked enough to hang in there.

Grimma, Johnny and the Dead is on ebay but ends today:

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TERRY-PRATCHETT-JOHNNY-AND-DEAD-VGC-/130608195671?pt=Fiction&hash=item1e68dae857#ht_500wt_947

Thanks, but I know its in the house somewhere! Either in DDs pit bedroom or dump playroom.

Ahh, I thought you meant you couldn't track a copy down!

I'd be happy for my daughter to read Terry Pratchett and she does. The only thing would be they might be a bit advanced for a 10 year old, but maybe not. There's nothing unsuitable that I've ever seen, and I've read loads of Pratchett.

We're just reading some junior Pratchetts (Bromeliad and Maurice) to our DCs at bedtime at the moment. I agree that the start of I Shall Wear Midnight (along with the corpses and the dead baby in Nation) is pretty much the most horrible thing I can remember in any of his books. Personally I wouldn't stop DD (nearly 11) from going onto read the "adult" ones if she wanted, but neither would I actively suggest them to her, I'd say the ideal age to start reading them is probably 13-15, but if a slightly younger child was keen then that would be fine.

I'd heartily recommend Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge to any pre-teen who loved the junior Pratchetts by the way - it's much in the same vein as Maurice, but a bit more meaty.