Beatrix biography potter tale of tom kitten
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Cloth. Condition: Good Only. Beatrix Potter (illustrator). First edition. A first edition Beatrix Potter tale, a charming adventure following three mischievous kittens, in the scarce deluxe binding. The first edition, one of the first three printings, which were indistinguishable from one another, with Plate III endpapers as per Quinby. In the deluxe binding, a scarce unrecorded variant in a blue cloth, as opposed to the more common green cloth.'Tom Kitten' follows the mischievous antics of three kittens, who ruin their mother's plans to have a tea party with friends.Beautifully illustrated in colour in Potter's typical style, with twenty-four colour plates.Collated, lacking the front endpaper, half-title, frontispiece, title page, and page 7/9, and page 25/26, with the text beginning on page 9. In the original publisher's deluxe cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, lacking the pictorial onlay to the front board. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the
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The Tale of Tom Kitten is a children's book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was released by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1907. The tale is about manners and how children react to them.
Plot[]
The tale begins with three feline siblings – Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet – tumbling about the doorstep and playing in the dust. Their mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, expects "fine company" for tea so she fetches the children indoors to wash and dress them before her friends arrive. Tom is "very naughty" and scratches his mother while she grooms him. Tabitha dresses Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers, and Tom in "all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes" taken from a chest of drawers. Tom is so fat that he bursts several buttons, but his mother sews them back on again.
Tabitha turns her kittens into the garden to keep them out of the way while she makes hot buttered toast for the party. She tells them to keep their frocks clean and keep
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The Tale of Tom Kitten
Children's book bygd Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Tom Kitten is a children's book, written and illustrated bygd Beatrix Potter. It was released bygd Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1907. The tale fryst vatten about manners and how children react to them. Tabitha Twitchit, a katt, invites friends for tea. She washes and dresses her three kittens for the party, but within moments the kittens have soiled and lost their clothes while scampering about the garden. Tabitha fryst vatten "affronted". She sends the kittens to bed, and tells her friends the kittens have the measles. Once the tea party is underway however, its "dignity and repose" are disturbed bygd the kittens romping overhead and leaving a bedroom in disorder.
Plot summary
[edit]This book tells the story of three little kittens, Mittens, Tom Kitten and Moppet, who get into mischief. Their mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, grooms and dresses them up for company she is expecting, then sends them out with the admonish