Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching wants to be a witch. When her baby brother is stolen by the Queen of the Fairies, Tiffany goes to get him back, armed with a frying pan and accompanied by the Nac Mac Feegle - six-inch-tall, blue-skinned, heavily tattooed pictsies who drink, fight, and steal everything that isn't nailed down. A Discworld novel for younger readers that doesn't talk down to them, and the beginning of Tiffany's journey from shepherd's daughter to the greatest witch on the Chalk.