![]() ![]() ↑ Sally Henny Penny was introduced in the 1905 book The Tale of Mrs.↑ A tucker is a detachable piece of decorative lace worn around the neck.Most famously, Alice is shown wearing a pinafore in illustrations by John Tenniel for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was commonly worn by young girls in Victorian and Edwardian England. ↑ A pinafore is an apron-like sleeveless, backless dress usually worn over a dress and tied in the back.In addition to appearing in Tom Kitten and The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908), she is also mentioned in The Tale of Ginger and Pickles (1909) and The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (written in 1914 but not published until 2016). ![]() The character was introduced in The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (1905). ↑ Tabitha Twitchit was named after a resident cat at Hill Top.The Puddle-Ducks are still looking for them. All the clothes, which had not been fastened, slip off and are lost. Meanwhile, the Puddle-Ducks go into a pond. The kittens make a terrible mess of the bedroom. Unfortunately, her tea party is disturbed by the extraordinary noises overhead. When her friends arrive, she tells them that the kittens are in bed with the measles. She scolds them and sends them upstairs to bed. Twitchit is very upset to find her kittens with no clothes on. The Puddle-Ducks, all dressed in the kittens' clothes, go waddling down the road. Puddle-Duck instead puts Tom's clothes on himself. All three kittens lose the rest of their clothes in the process. Mittens laughs so hard at the sight that she falls off the wall, and Moppet and Tom follow her down. Rebeccah and Jemima Puddle-Duck pick up the hat and tucker the kittens dropped and try them on. The three Puddle-Ducks come along and see the kittens on the wall. He gets his buttons caught in the ferns on the way and arrives at the top of the wall in pieces. Tom Kitten cannot jump in his trousers so he has to walk up to the top instead. They decide to turn the pinafores back to front and climb up on top of the garden wall to sit down. Moppet and Mittens trip and fall down on their noses, staining their pinafores. Kittens are not used to wearing clothes and walking on hind legs. She tells them to keep their clothes clean and stay away from Sally Henny Penny and the Puddle-Ducks. Twitchit unwisely lets the kittens out into the garden while she is busy making toast for the tea party. She then puts her son Tom Kitten in a jacket and trousers. Twitchit washes and brushes them all then dresses her two girls Moppet and Mittens in pinafores and tuckers. Original illustration by Beatrix Potter.Ī mother cat named Tabitha Twitchit brings her three playful kittens indoors to get them ready for visitors. Twitchit takes her kittens indoors to dress them for the tea party. Tom Kitten and his family also appear in the 1908 book The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding. The episode first aired in the United Kingdom on July 22, 1992. ![]() #BEATRIX POTTER TOM KITTEN SERIES#The Tale of Tom Kitten was adapted with The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908) as the third episode of the BBC television series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. The illustrations for Tom Kitten combine the drawings she created during that time with the interior and exterior sketches of the Hill Top farmhouse, her beloved country residence. Left by themselves afterward, the kittens quickly manage to not only soil their clothes but lose them altogether.īeatrix Potter had borrowed a kitten from a workman to model for her previous tale, The Story of Miss Moppet (1906). ![]() In the story, a mother cat dresses her playful kittens in fine clothes in preparation for a tea party. It has since been reprinted many times and also been translated into several languages. It was first published in September 1907. The Tale of Tom Kitten is a picture book for young children by the English author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. Front cover of the first edition of The Tale of Tom Kitten. ![]()
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