title: The Tale of Tom Kitten (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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  # The Tale of Tom Kitten
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Beatrix Potter
  
  
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  THE TALE OF TOM KITTEN
  
  
  BY BEATRIX POTTER
  
  
  _Author of_ _“The Tale of Peter Rabbit", &c._
  
  
  [Illustration]
  
  
  FREDERICK WARNE
  
  
  First published 1907
  
  
  
  
  
  1907 by Frederick Warne &Co.
  
  
  
  
  
  Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited,
  
  
  Beccles and London
  
  
  
  
  
  DEDICATED TO ALL PICKLES, —ESPECIALLY TO THOSE THAT GET UPON MY
  
  
  GARDEN WALL
  
  
  
  
  
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  Once upon a time there were three little kittens, and their names
  
  
  were Mittens, Tom Kitten, and Moppet.
  
  
  They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about
  
  
  the doorstep and played in the dust.
  
  
  But one day their mother—Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit—expected friends to
  
  
  tea; so she fe