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Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Tom Kitten

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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 fetched the kittens indoors, to wash and dress them, before the fine company arrived.

First she scrubbed their faces (this one is Moppet).

 

 

Then she brushed their fur, (this one is Mittens).

Then she combed their tails and whiskers (this is Tom Kitten).

Tom was very naughty, and he scratched.

Mrs. Tabitha dressed Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers; and then she took all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes out of a chest of drawers, in order to dress up her son Thomas.

Tom Kitten was very fat, and he had grown; several buttons burst off. His mother sewed them on again.

When the three kittens were ready, Mrs. Tabitha unwisely turned them out into the garden, to be out of the way while she made hot buttered toast.

“Now keep your frocks clean, children! You must walk on your hind legs. Keep away from the dirty ash-pit, and from Sally Henny Penny, and from the pig-stye and the Puddle-Ducks.”

Moppet and Mittens walked down the garden path unsteadily. Presently they trod upon their pinafores and fell on their noses.

When they stood up there were several green smears!

“Let us climb up the rockery, and sit on the garden wall,” said Moppet.

They turned their pinafores back to front, and went up with a skip and a jump; Moppet’s white tucker fell down into the road.

Tom Kitten was quite unable to jump when walking upon his hind legs in trousers. He came up the rockery by degrees, breaking the ferns, and shedding buttons right and left.

He was all in pieces when he reached the top of the wall.

Moppet and Mittens tried to pull him together; his hat fell off, and the rest of his buttons burst.

While they were in difficulties, there was a pit pat paddle pat! and the three Puddle-Ducks came along the hard high road, marching one behind the other and doing the goose step—pit pat paddle pat! pit pat waddle pat!

They stopped and stood in a row, and stared up at the kittens. They had very small eyes and looked surprised.

Then the two duck-birds, Rebeccah and Jemima Puddle-Duck, picked up the hat and tucker and put them on.

Mittens laughed so that she fell off the wall. Moppet and Tom descended after her; the pinafores and all the rest of Tom’s clothes came off on the way down.

“Come! Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck,” said Moppet—”Come and help us to dress him! Come and button up Tom!”

Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck advanced in a slow sideways manner, and picked up the various articles.

But he put them on himself! They fitted him even worse than Tom Kitten.

“It’s a very fine morning!” said Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck.

And he and Jemima and Rebeccah Puddle-Duck set off up the road, keeping step—pit pat, paddle pat! pit pat, waddle pat!

Then Tabitha Twitchit came down the garden and found her kittens on the wall with no clothes on.

She pulled them off the wall, smacked them, and took them back to the house.

“My friends will arrive in a minute, and you are not fit to be seen; I am affronted,” said Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit.

She sent them upstairs; and I am sorry to say she told her friends that they were in bed with the measles; which was not true.

Quite the contrary; they were not in bed: not in the least.

Somehow there were very extraordinary noises over-head, which disturbed the dignity and repose of the tea party.

And I think that some day I shall have to make another, larger, book, to tell you more about Tom Kitten!

As for the Puddle-Ducks—they went into a pond.

The clothes all came off directly, because there were no buttons.

Original illustrations by Beatrix Potter

Header illustration adapted from illustration by Beatrix Potter

Let’s Chat About The Stories ~ Ideas for Talking With Kids

Responsibility

1. Tabitha Twitchit took a great deal of care in cleaning and dressing her kittens for their visitors. Was it their fault that the clothes got dirty? Why or why not?

2. What might have been a better thing for Tabitha Twitchit to do, than smacking the kittens and putting them into bed?

3. What might the kittens have done to help fix the situation?

Empathy

4. How do you think Tabitha Twitchit felt when she saw the kitten’s clothes all dirty and gone, after she had asked them to take care? Why would she have felt like this?

Bedtime story about kitten Meow. Read and listen

In our fairy tale at night live the puppy Tuzik and the sparrow Gosha. And the main character of the fairy tale is the kitten Meow, who once got very upset ...

Listen to the fairy tale (5 min 1 sec) He was born recently and did not know much yet. But he knew for sure that the puppy Tuzik was older than him, and the sparrow Gosh was generally a grandfather.

Kitten Meow liked to play with puppy Tuzik. And they played quite often. But lately the puppy Tuzik often began to disappear somewhere. Kitten Meow was looking for him in a kennel, under a bush, and even behind a huge shed, where the kitten never went of its own accord, because there were huge dogs basking in the sun, and the kitten was afraid of them. He never found a puppy.

And then one day, when Tuzik once again disappeared, Meow the kitten walked aimlessly around the yard. Suddenly he heard a conversation. It was Tuzik's mother talking to some unfamiliar white dog.

“My Tuzik is a very good puppy,” she said. – He helps me with the housework, learns to guard the house, and then he lost his head…

Kitten Meow did not hear anything further. He thought that what's the difference, for what reason Tuzik lost his head?

He doesn't have a head!

Kitten Meow sat down and cried. He cried quite loudly, and did not hear further than the words of Tuzik's mother that her son had lost his head from the wealth that unexpectedly fell on him. This wealth is books about hunting.

Tuzik loved hunting. He wanted to know everything about her. Therefore, from time to time he ran away from the kitten Meow to read a book, and he was looking for him.

Sparrow Gosha saw that the kitten Meow was crying inconsolably and flew up to him to find out what was the matter.

— Puppy Tuzik lost his head, — the kitten said sadly. “I heard it myself from his mother. Ah, how we were friends! No more games! We ate and drank from the same bowl, met and saw off the dawn together ... And the kitten began to cry again. Sparrow Gosha stroked him on the head and flew away to his chicks on a tall tree. He talked with the chicks, and, thinking about the unfortunate puppy, sadly looked down.

And all of a sudden he saw… an alive and unharmed puppy Tuzik reading a book. His head was right there! Sparrow flew up to Tuzik and told him a sad story, the one he heard from the kitten Meow. Puppy Tuzik ran to his mother to find out the details of the conversation with an unfamiliar white dog.

— Yes, I said that you lost your head... but from books! Mom said.

— Now everything is clear to me, — said the puppy Tuzik, — the kitten, apparently, did not listen to the end of the conversation.

He ran to Meow the kitten.

The puppy explained everything to his friend, the kitten Meow, and the tears were forgotten.

By evening, the kitten Meow walked around his house, swaying slightly.

— I completely lost my head, — said the kitten to his mother.

— Why? she asked.

- From the good news - Tuzik's head is in place! Meow the kitten replied.

He was about to go to bed. But before going to bed, he still could not resist and told his mother about the day's adventure.

The kitten's mother said that one should not draw conclusions from fragments of phrases, and one also needs to understand the meaning of expressions.

“I will be smarter in the future, mother,” said the kitten Meow and wished her good night.

Good night to you too, my friend!

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Polina in the Land of Shadows

Author's fairy tale about the adventures of the girl Polina, cats and mice in the mysterious Land of Shadows for school children. A fairy tale in the fantasy style about how a daughter saves her dad, defeats an evil sorceress and finds her best friend - Cleopatra.