The Wee Free Men is the kind of book that makes writing look like an effortless endeavor. And the ending...well, it was just wonderful. 
 I read this one aloud to my kids, and it was an absolute delight. My daughter is nine, just like Tiffany, and doesn't need me to read books to her anymore, but I still do because we love sharing stories. My five-year-old loves talking like the Nac Mac Feegle ("Crivens!" he says, innumerable times each day), but it's not clear to me just how much else he got from the story. My daughter, however, laughed along with me at the puns and other fun little jokes with which Pratchett peppers this story and was moved along with me at the moving bits (which I won't detail because I don't want to spoil it. Suffice to say it was more than I expected from a book for young people). Both children were kind enough not to make fun of my version of the Nac Mac Feegle accent. 
 I'm betting my daughter is going to want to pick up another Discworld book tomorrow...and probably will want to make butter, too.