The Tale of Tom Kitten (Picture Book)

This is a 62-page children's picture book about Tom Kitten and his sisters, all three of whom do many naughty things. This is also Beatrix Potter's best-selling book. Tom and other characters in the book were marketed as children's plush toys.

Twenty thousand copies of the book were released in September, 1907, and another 12,500 in December.

This edition of the book was illustrated in color by Potter. Each page has been restored to its original condition as carefully and completely as possible.

Twenty thousand copies of the book were released in September, 1907, and another 12,500 in December.

Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books, featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Born into a wealthy Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother Walter Bertram (1872–1918), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family. Her parents were artistic, interested in nature and enjoyed the countryside. As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly. Summer holidays were spent away from London, in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.

She wrote 23 children's books in addition to coloring or painting books.