title: The Story of Miss Moppet (Peter Rabbit)
author:  Beatrix Potter 
description: Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. The Tale of Peter Rabbit published in 1902, was her first book, expanded from an illustrated letter she had sent to a young friend. Beatrix Potter went on to publish more than 20 tales and collections of rhymes.
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  Title: The Story of Miss Moppet  
    
  Author: Beatrix Potter  
    
  Release Date: January 31, 2005 [EBook #14848]  
    
  Language: English  
    
    
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  # THE STORY OF
  
  
  # MISS MOPPET
  
  
  
  
  
  ![Miss Moppet and
  Mouse](@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@14848@14848-h@images@m06.jpg)  
  
  
    
  
  
  ## THE STORY OF
  
  
  ## MISS MOPPET
  
  
  ### BY
  
  
  ## BEATRIX POTTER
  
  
  _Author of  
  
  
  The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc_  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  ![Mouse]