![]() Very rare and early Beatrix Potter coloring book illustrated with eight color plates from eight different stories, each with a facing "outline" illustration intended to be painted or colored-in by the book's owner all "outline" illustrations remain uncolored as issued text related to the illustrations/stories appear below the illustrations internally the book is in nearly pristine condition. leaves, including pastedowns' illustration printed one side only. Original publisher's printed glassine dust jacket with price (One Shilling Net) to front panel and publisher's advertisement for other Potter titles and merchandise, e.g., 'Peter Rabbit's Slippers: The "Joy" Footwear For Tiny Feet,' to both front and rear flaps, with minor fraying to the edges, small chips to head and tail of spine and a large chip and some stains to back panel for what is still a nearly complete dust jacket, with all printing bright and legible. Color pictorial stiff card wrappers with titles and image of Tom Kitten standing before a canvas on an easel with paintbrush in hand to front wrapper, titles in white to spine and color pictorial publisher's advertisement for "The Peter Rabbit Books By Beatrix Potter," with ten "First Series" titles and two "Second Series" titles listed to back wrapper, with light chipping to spine ends and a few marks to back wrapper, but all in all, truly a wonderful copy of the book. In the last pages, the Puddle-ducks have lost the kittens' clothing in a pond, and they have been looking for them ever since.Soft cover. The author interrupts to promise the reader she will make a larger book about Tom some day. The next illustration shows Tabitha entering the room. An illustration depicts the bedroom in complete disorder and Tom in his mother's bonnet. However, "the dignity and repose of the tea party" is disturbed by the "very extraordinary noises overhead" as the playful kittens romp in a bedroom. Tabitha sends her kittens upstairs, and tells her guests the kittens are in bed with the measles. "My friends will arrive in a minute, and you are not fit to be seen I am affronted!" she says. She pulls them off the wall, "smacks" them, and takes them back to the house. He picks up various articles of Tom's clothing and "he put them on himself!" The three ducks set off up the road just as Tabitha approaches and discovers her three children with no clothes on. ![]() The kittens lose the rest of their clothing descending the wall. Three Puddle-ducks come marching along the road – "pit pat paddle pat! pit pat waddle pat!" Jemima Puddle-duck and Rebeccah put on some of the dropped clothing. He is disheveled when he reaches the top of the wall, and loses his hat, but his sisters try to pull him together. Tom has a more difficult time gaining the top of the wall "breaking the ferns, and shedding buttons right and left". ![]() They climb upon the garden wall and lose some of their clothing in the ascent. Moppet and Mittens soon have their pinafores smeared with grass stains. She tells them to keep their frocks clean and keep away from the pigsty, the dirty ash pit, Sally Henny Penny, and the Puddle-Ducks, and then returns to her work. Tabitha turns her kittens into the garden to keep them out of the way while she makes hot buttered toast for the party. Tom is so fat that he bursts several buttons, but his mother sews them back on again. 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 "very naughty" and scratches his mother while she grooms him. Tabitha Twitchit, expects "fine company" for tea so she fetches the children indoors to wash and dress them before her friends arrive. The tale begins with three feline siblings – Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet – tumbling about the doorstep and playing in the dust. The tale is about manners and how children react to them. The Tale of Tom Kitten is a children's book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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