I observe with some interest the upset caused by John Ezard ('Pied Piper' brings belated literary award, July 13) when he wrote about Terry Pratchett's Carnegie Medal-winning book and said that the main audience for his books was teenagers.
'Pied Piper' brings belated literary reward
The millionaire fantasy writer Terry Pratchett yesterday overturned 16 years of disdain by the British literary establishment by winning his first major literary award.
The rat in the hat
Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy, Francis Spufford says Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents deserves the Carnegie Medal