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The World of Beatrix Potter #24
The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots
The story of an undaunted young black cat, who leads a brave double-life defeating vile villains.
'The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots' was written by Beatrix Potter circa 1914, but wasn't published until 2016. In 2014, the manuscript was discovered, alongside mentions that she intended to complete it. However, due to WWI and personal events, it has not been made public until now.
When Miss Kitty sneaks out to go hunting in her beautiful boots she gets herself into all sorts of scrapes, but on this particular night she meets the foxiest hunter of them all - Mr. Tod!
This utterly entertaining tale is filled with mistaken identities, devious villains and even an appearance from Peter Rabbit.
Told with Beatrix Potter's trademark dry humour and wry observations, this brilliant tale is sure to become as popular as her original classics and is illustrated by the best-loved Quentin Blake.
'The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots' was written by Beatrix Potter circa 1914, but wasn't published until 2016. In 2014, the manuscript was discovered, alongside mentions that she intended to complete it. However, due to WWI and personal events, it has not been made public until now.
When Miss Kitty sneaks out to go hunting in her beautiful boots she gets herself into all sorts of scrapes, but on this particular night she meets the foxiest hunter of them all - Mr. Tod!
This utterly entertaining tale is filled with mistaken identities, devious villains and even an appearance from Peter Rabbit.
Told with Beatrix Potter's trademark dry humour and wry observations, this brilliant tale is sure to become as popular as her original classics and is illustrated by the best-loved Quentin Blake.
72 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2016
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About the author
Beatrix Potter
3,355 books2,140 followersHelen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.
In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.
Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.
In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.
Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.
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June 4, 2017
Conveniently found exactly 100 years after it was written, this tale has only just recently been published. They even enlisted Quentin Blake to come and illustrate it. It makes me wonder how many other works of literature are being held back for such timely releases. The world turns on money, unfortunately, and the book market is no different.
But that’s beside the point. In here we have an entertaining little tale, quirky and playful, yet perceptive and sarcastic. Potter satirises hunting, demonstrating the hypocrisy of it. Why shoot one animal when your morals won’t allow you to shoot another? What’s the difference between a rabbit and a hedgehog, a fox and a ferret? Nothing. The kitty in boots stops being a pampered house cat for a day and acts like a human hunter. She goes out into the forests and does what humans do, and she gets into all sorts of mess and traps.
The seriousness of the moral situation is offset by the light-hearted nature of the prose. It’s a good bit of fun, but entirely forgettable.
But that’s beside the point. In here we have an entertaining little tale, quirky and playful, yet perceptive and sarcastic. Potter satirises hunting, demonstrating the hypocrisy of it. Why shoot one animal when your morals won’t allow you to shoot another? What’s the difference between a rabbit and a hedgehog, a fox and a ferret? Nothing. The kitty in boots stops being a pampered house cat for a day and acts like a human hunter. She goes out into the forests and does what humans do, and she gets into all sorts of mess and traps.
The seriousness of the moral situation is offset by the light-hearted nature of the prose. It’s a good bit of fun, but entirely forgettable.
May 25, 2020
Such a weird little story, it feels quite different to Beatrix Potter's other work. There is an element of violence, which is not something I normally associate with Potter..!
I am a fan of Quentin Blake's work, and his illustrations here work perfectly.
(Received a review copy through Edelweiss)
I am a fan of Quentin Blake's work, and his illustrations here work perfectly.
(Received a review copy through Edelweiss)
September 9, 2016
This tiny little story is just long enough to get the young ones imagining the secret lives of kitties, ferrets, rabbits, foxes, and a whole host of neighborhood animals who are abroad in the fields at night. For those that have the series of Beatrix Potter you will recognize many now-famous characters of the blue-coated Peter Rabbit and the terrifying Mr. Tod the Fox, among others. You don’t want to miss this one. For those that dimly remember Potter's characters, this story has wonders made evident by the exquisitely expressive voice of Helen Mirren who shows us the very best way to read a bedtime story. Listening to this story will set you down in an England seemingly long gone, but completely alive nonetheless. It is a gem and well worth seeking out.
A short extract of Helen Mirren reading this story is posted on my blog.
A short extract of Helen Mirren reading this story is posted on my blog.
January 23, 2024
The title kitty isn't the bland pet her woman thinks. This cat has worked out a scheme with a friend that allows her to get out whenever she likes, in order to get into trouble. Trouble being a gun and a rather smart tweed hunting suit.
I was prepared to find the art jarring, because Blake isn't particularly similar to Potter, but it worked beautifully. Successful find on all counts. I wish there would be more.
Library copy
I was prepared to find the art jarring, because Blake isn't particularly similar to Potter, but it worked beautifully. Successful find on all counts. I wish there would be more.
Library copy
September 19, 2016
I guess I'm too much of a traditionalist. These illustrations, though I love Quentin Blake's other work, didn't really seem to fit the story in the tradition of Beatrix Potter. As well, gun-toting kitties? This one might have been better left unfound. Yet again, it may be that I'm too much looking for the work to resemble others of Beatrix Potter's anthology. Not too impressed, obviously.
December 6, 2016
Where to start with this one... Ok I hate the choice of Quentin Blake as the illustrator. I love Beatrix Potter, her illustrations are gorgeous. Why not just get an illustrator to emulate her style? Just because Blake's well known? I don't know, I could get over it but I genuinely found some of the images hard to make out. Again this wouldn't have been TOO big a problem if I understood what the hell the text was on about.
So the story itself, well it's clearly an early draft there's a reason we haven't seen this story before, because it wasn't finished. The plot is non existent, something about a black cat who gets another black cat to pretend to be it while the first cat sneaks out to hunt at night. But then theres a load of other cats introduced and some ferrets for no reason all with ridiculous names and I know Miss Tiggy-Winkle and Squirrel Nutkins are in this world but Cheesebox!? The cat then gets caught in a trap and Mr Todd comes to release her but she points a gun at him. He was trying to help... I can't even begin to try with this one.
Just don't bother reading it it's terrible.
So the story itself, well it's clearly an early draft there's a reason we haven't seen this story before, because it wasn't finished. The plot is non existent, something about a black cat who gets another black cat to pretend to be it while the first cat sneaks out to hunt at night. But then theres a load of other cats introduced and some ferrets for no reason all with ridiculous names and I know Miss Tiggy-Winkle and Squirrel Nutkins are in this world but Cheesebox!? The cat then gets caught in a trap and Mr Todd comes to release her but she points a gun at him. He was trying to help... I can't even begin to try with this one.
Just don't bother reading it it's terrible.
December 17, 2024
This Beatrix Potter story was not discovered until 2015 when the manuscript was discovered by Jo Hanks, a publisher at Penguin Random House Children's Books, in the Victoria and Albert Museum archive. Written in 1914, Beatrix Potter only drew one illustration for the story so this rather belated first edition (!) is illustrated by Quentin Blake who was intrigued by two odd coincidences; firstly that Miss Kitty of the story had chosen the name of St Quintin and was also called Q. While he recognised that the spelling of Quintin wasn't exactly matching his name, it was near enough, and then when she was called Q, that was how he had been known for many years! He, therefore, felt 'I couldn't resist the simple fantasy that she was keeping it for me'! Whatever, the result is illustrations that complement the text brilliantly.
Kitty, who liked to be known as Miss Catherine St Quintin, while her friends Cheesebox and Winkiepeeps called her Q and Squintums respectively. She lived with a kind old lady, who was distraught when she unexpectedly disappeared. And when the lady discovered her home again she felt that there was something different about her but she could not put her finger on it.
Meanwhile Kitty is out and about, hunting with her air-gun and getting into all sorts of scrapes, and on the night in question she meets the foxiest hunter of them all - one of Beatrix Potter's other characters, Mr. Tod! And while she is on the hunt, Slimmy Jimmy and John Stoat-Ferret are also on the prowl and Q gets into a spat with them when her air-gun accidentally goes off.
Q gets caught in a trap and along comes another Beatrix Potter favourite, Miss Tiggy-winkle, who, after a great struggle, frees Q who unfortunately lost one of her toes. This gave her a limp for the remainder of her days and she gave up hunting, settling for mice and rats around the yard. This in between attending various tea parties with respectable cats in the village, such as Ribby and Tabitha Twitchit. Meanwhile her lookalike Winkiepeeps lived in the woods thus preventing the kind old lady from getting the two cats mixed up!
How nice to have a new Beatrix Potter story of such good quality with mistaken identities, devious villains and even a mention of Peter Rabbit, at this late stage; it was published on the 150th anniversary of her birth.
Kitty, who liked to be known as Miss Catherine St Quintin, while her friends Cheesebox and Winkiepeeps called her Q and Squintums respectively. She lived with a kind old lady, who was distraught when she unexpectedly disappeared. And when the lady discovered her home again she felt that there was something different about her but she could not put her finger on it.
Meanwhile Kitty is out and about, hunting with her air-gun and getting into all sorts of scrapes, and on the night in question she meets the foxiest hunter of them all - one of Beatrix Potter's other characters, Mr. Tod! And while she is on the hunt, Slimmy Jimmy and John Stoat-Ferret are also on the prowl and Q gets into a spat with them when her air-gun accidentally goes off.
Q gets caught in a trap and along comes another Beatrix Potter favourite, Miss Tiggy-winkle, who, after a great struggle, frees Q who unfortunately lost one of her toes. This gave her a limp for the remainder of her days and she gave up hunting, settling for mice and rats around the yard. This in between attending various tea parties with respectable cats in the village, such as Ribby and Tabitha Twitchit. Meanwhile her lookalike Winkiepeeps lived in the woods thus preventing the kind old lady from getting the two cats mixed up!
How nice to have a new Beatrix Potter story of such good quality with mistaken identities, devious villains and even a mention of Peter Rabbit, at this late stage; it was published on the 150th anniversary of her birth.
August 19, 2021
Are you sure she wrote this? This is aggressive and ugly, I didn't like the art or the story but the narration was good.
January 7, 2018
This is a charming Beatrix Potter story (or perhaps unfinished story) that is well-illustrated by Quentin Blake (not Potter) and a story that had not been published until now. There are some familiar characters in the simple story - which reminds me a bit of Mother Goose - as well as a cast of new feline and other creatures. I haven't listened to the story read by Helen Mirren - which is included with the book - but no doubt it's as entrancing as the book.
I doubt if this story would have ended the way it did had the author revisited it, because the heart of the story- the two black cats that take turns being an owner's "serious, well-behaved, young black cat" is never really resolved. All we know is that the "wild" black cat goes off to live in the woods, and "Kitty-in-Boots" more or less becomes totally "bourgeois," domesticated after her horrifying misadventure while hunting with an air gun. What is the moral of the story? Not to be led astray by shady characters - like the "wild" black cat - because of the likely unfortunate consequences, and instead to stay with more "boring" "well-behaved" cats, close to the hearth, rather than adventuring? I suppose that's a sensible message to convey to the likely audience of a Beatrix Potter book (although readers of any age definitely can and do enjoy her books): Children. The reader (or listener, if the book is read to a child) hears what can befall a kitty out on the prowl at night, and hopefully takes the message to heart, not to engage in foolish nocturnal hi-jinks. A parent would approve - of course - since it's definitely a salutary message, directed to kids who may not understand fully the dangers "out there" beyond the realm of safety and caring at home (or under adult supervision away from home).
Although the illustrations of course weren't like Ms. Potter's, they had an updated whimsy - that reminded me a bit of Roz Chast or Edward Gorey drawings - all the creatures look a bit frazzled, the humans or "responsible" parent figures in the book, less so. This is actually a beautifully illustrated children's book that readers of any age will enjoy. It's a wonderful edition - that even includes the CD with the book narrated by Helen Mirren. It is nice to read stories of a mythical simpler time - well, relaxing and dreamy - one can imagine life was picturesque and simple in a rural area, but life and survival was probably hard work for villagers, with no modern conveniences. We view that mythic era of fairy tales and fables as charming, the messages of these stories are easy to decipher and un-ironic (in general): The fox is the bad guy who bags all sorts of prey, including cats. The kindly owners of cats are the good people, who share food with "well-behaved" cats and worry about their cats being abducted for their fur. Concerns are straight-forward and un-complicated. In a way, the charm of fairy tales or children's stories such as this Beatrix Potter story, lies in their evocation of a supposedly simpler time, a mythic past, tales in which moral lessons are conveyed in a (usually) charming way. The truth of course is much less charming: How did Kitty-in-Boot's owner actually live, was she able to grow food on her own; if not, what was she trading for food? How did she happen to occupy the cottage in the country? The realities that would concern us today - housing, money, food - etc., are of course never explained, or usually never explained, in "once upon a time" land. There are just villagers living in cottages, and things then happen, many times once they venture into the woods, or go on some "adventure" - which turns into a misadventure.
We also enjoy reading these stories as adults since they hearken back to our own childhood - since we're born into a living arrangement wherein things like money, housing, food, are already in place; only later do we begin to understand that things cost money and that dad or mom or both have to work to get money to provide shelter and food and clothing, etc. A fairy tale, where "real" "quotidian" concerns are absent, is similar to a child's world - before they have a grasp of what money means and so forth. The neighborhood is the village - kindly adults somehow have food, and care for kids and pets. Things are simpler when we're children, since the cares of survival are in the adult "domain." Perhaps things seem kindlier - before the demands of school, passing tests, and so forth set in, and way before the demands of real life are encountered as adults.
It's not easy to think back to when we were kids - and lived in a world devoid of adult cares. As adults, we're consumed with worries: How are we going to make a living, where is the next dollar coming from, how are we going to pay the rent, or make the next car payment. The list of worries and calculations the average adult is consumed with is endless - and leaves little time for contemplation and whimsy, or mystery. And as children, we're so anxious to grow up and leave the world of childhood. Little do we know then that the seemingly endless years of adulthood are much less exciting, and consumed with concessions, negotiations with grubby reality. The "reward" for growing up: We're told we have to compete, and accumulate - some feel "success" means material rewards, like new electronic devices or cars, or ostentatious homes in acres of land. Of course a family, with the set of responsibilities and worries that entails. If, however, the adult as a child knew what was in store for them as an adult, that the "exciting" world of adult-hood really is for most a never-ending rat race, with ersatz rewards (other than family & friends, I think) I wonder how anxious the child would be to grow up and join the adult world. Beatrix Potter wrote wonderful children's stories that are a treat for kids and at least give the adults a brief glimpse back to the mythic, simpler world of childhood. Of course Beatrix Potter stories and (most) children's books, and fairy tales give adult readers a chance to re-live what they've lost: An Edenic past, childhood, a world that is free of worries and untruths.
I doubt if this story would have ended the way it did had the author revisited it, because the heart of the story- the two black cats that take turns being an owner's "serious, well-behaved, young black cat" is never really resolved. All we know is that the "wild" black cat goes off to live in the woods, and "Kitty-in-Boots" more or less becomes totally "bourgeois," domesticated after her horrifying misadventure while hunting with an air gun. What is the moral of the story? Not to be led astray by shady characters - like the "wild" black cat - because of the likely unfortunate consequences, and instead to stay with more "boring" "well-behaved" cats, close to the hearth, rather than adventuring? I suppose that's a sensible message to convey to the likely audience of a Beatrix Potter book (although readers of any age definitely can and do enjoy her books): Children. The reader (or listener, if the book is read to a child) hears what can befall a kitty out on the prowl at night, and hopefully takes the message to heart, not to engage in foolish nocturnal hi-jinks. A parent would approve - of course - since it's definitely a salutary message, directed to kids who may not understand fully the dangers "out there" beyond the realm of safety and caring at home (or under adult supervision away from home).
Although the illustrations of course weren't like Ms. Potter's, they had an updated whimsy - that reminded me a bit of Roz Chast or Edward Gorey drawings - all the creatures look a bit frazzled, the humans or "responsible" parent figures in the book, less so. This is actually a beautifully illustrated children's book that readers of any age will enjoy. It's a wonderful edition - that even includes the CD with the book narrated by Helen Mirren. It is nice to read stories of a mythical simpler time - well, relaxing and dreamy - one can imagine life was picturesque and simple in a rural area, but life and survival was probably hard work for villagers, with no modern conveniences. We view that mythic era of fairy tales and fables as charming, the messages of these stories are easy to decipher and un-ironic (in general): The fox is the bad guy who bags all sorts of prey, including cats. The kindly owners of cats are the good people, who share food with "well-behaved" cats and worry about their cats being abducted for their fur. Concerns are straight-forward and un-complicated. In a way, the charm of fairy tales or children's stories such as this Beatrix Potter story, lies in their evocation of a supposedly simpler time, a mythic past, tales in which moral lessons are conveyed in a (usually) charming way. The truth of course is much less charming: How did Kitty-in-Boot's owner actually live, was she able to grow food on her own; if not, what was she trading for food? How did she happen to occupy the cottage in the country? The realities that would concern us today - housing, money, food - etc., are of course never explained, or usually never explained, in "once upon a time" land. There are just villagers living in cottages, and things then happen, many times once they venture into the woods, or go on some "adventure" - which turns into a misadventure.
We also enjoy reading these stories as adults since they hearken back to our own childhood - since we're born into a living arrangement wherein things like money, housing, food, are already in place; only later do we begin to understand that things cost money and that dad or mom or both have to work to get money to provide shelter and food and clothing, etc. A fairy tale, where "real" "quotidian" concerns are absent, is similar to a child's world - before they have a grasp of what money means and so forth. The neighborhood is the village - kindly adults somehow have food, and care for kids and pets. Things are simpler when we're children, since the cares of survival are in the adult "domain." Perhaps things seem kindlier - before the demands of school, passing tests, and so forth set in, and way before the demands of real life are encountered as adults.
It's not easy to think back to when we were kids - and lived in a world devoid of adult cares. As adults, we're consumed with worries: How are we going to make a living, where is the next dollar coming from, how are we going to pay the rent, or make the next car payment. The list of worries and calculations the average adult is consumed with is endless - and leaves little time for contemplation and whimsy, or mystery. And as children, we're so anxious to grow up and leave the world of childhood. Little do we know then that the seemingly endless years of adulthood are much less exciting, and consumed with concessions, negotiations with grubby reality. The "reward" for growing up: We're told we have to compete, and accumulate - some feel "success" means material rewards, like new electronic devices or cars, or ostentatious homes in acres of land. Of course a family, with the set of responsibilities and worries that entails. If, however, the adult as a child knew what was in store for them as an adult, that the "exciting" world of adult-hood really is for most a never-ending rat race, with ersatz rewards (other than family & friends, I think) I wonder how anxious the child would be to grow up and join the adult world. Beatrix Potter wrote wonderful children's stories that are a treat for kids and at least give the adults a brief glimpse back to the mythic, simpler world of childhood. Of course Beatrix Potter stories and (most) children's books, and fairy tales give adult readers a chance to re-live what they've lost: An Edenic past, childhood, a world that is free of worries and untruths.
October 28, 2025
I love how this tale evokes the nocturnal shenanigans of a black cat. I don't know if the cat belonged to Beatrix potter (I like to think it did) but clearly it must have been based on a real cat and the imagined adventures that I got up to. Quentin Blake is an amazing illustrator but I would have loved the pictures to have been done in the style of Beatrix Potters other books. so glad this unpublished story finally got its chance to shine. maybe a bit grim in places for small tots but I think it works for readers of all ages. plus Winkiepeeps is a great name for a cat 😺
September 1, 2016
Hmm... The style of this story seems different to Beatrix Potter's other books. Although she wrote the original manuscript in 1914 before World War 1 and never completed it. I didn't enjoy the tale although it might have been because I was distracted by the Blake drawings. It didn't feel like I was reading a Beatrix Potter tale, more like a weird Roald Dahl story because as much as I tried to put the illustrations out of my mind while reading they seeped in and possibly screwed my perception of the tale. I may need to read it again.
December 29, 2025
Het is wel duidelijk waarom Beatrix Potter dit verhaal in de lade heeft laten liggen. Het mist nog wel iets. Maar ik verheug me erop om
het aan mijn nichtjes voor te lezen. Ze houden van iets gewelddadigere vertellingen dan hun tante Diana…
het aan mijn nichtjes voor te lezen. Ze houden van iets gewelddadigere vertellingen dan hun tante Diana…
April 30, 2021
3.5 Stars
While entertaining, this one is a little EH for kids.
While entertaining, this one is a little EH for kids.
March 11, 2019
Ternyata ada naskah Beatrix Potter yang belum pernah diterbitkan. Naskah ini ditulis pada tahun 1914, di awal Perang Dunia I. Kemungkinan, Potter tak pernah sempat membuat ilustrasi naskah ini karena saat itu kehidupan Potter cukup sulit sehingga ia harus fokus mengelola pertaniannya. Hingga pada 2015, Quentin Blake diminta membuat ilustrasi untuk manuskrip tersebut. Dan jadilah buku ini, The Tale of Kitty in Boots. Perpaduan yang saya suka, penulis & ilustrator favorit dalam satu buku.
Ceritanya sendiri khas Potter. Karakter tokoh yang unik, cerita agak nakal. Sepertinya Potter terinspirasi dari kisah Puss in Boots yang ditulis Charles Perrault di abad ke-17. Kitty, kucing hitam yang sopan dan baik, begitu menurut pemiliknya. Kitty sendiri menyebut dirinya Miss Catherine St. Quintin. Tapi sebenarnya Kitty nggak "baik-baik amat" karena para malam hari dia suka keluar berburu. Apa sih yang Kitty buru? Berhasilkah Kitty dengan misi berburunya?
3,5 stars deh. Ceritanya lumayan, Peter Rabbit & Tiggywinkle sempat jadi cameo 😁. Tapi memang secara keseluruhan agak aneh. Berasa sebuah karya yang belum selesai.
Ceritanya sendiri khas Potter. Karakter tokoh yang unik, cerita agak nakal. Sepertinya Potter terinspirasi dari kisah Puss in Boots yang ditulis Charles Perrault di abad ke-17. Kitty, kucing hitam yang sopan dan baik, begitu menurut pemiliknya. Kitty sendiri menyebut dirinya Miss Catherine St. Quintin. Tapi sebenarnya Kitty nggak "baik-baik amat" karena para malam hari dia suka keluar berburu. Apa sih yang Kitty buru? Berhasilkah Kitty dengan misi berburunya?
3,5 stars deh. Ceritanya lumayan, Peter Rabbit & Tiggywinkle sempat jadi cameo 😁. Tapi memang secara keseluruhan agak aneh. Berasa sebuah karya yang belum selesai.
June 27, 2023
This was just meh for me. I've loved all the classic Beatrix Potter stories..... This just sort of felt contrived, and it fell flat.
April 11, 2021
The fact that Quentin Blake believed Potter had been keeping this book for him is EVERYTHING! :’)
I do have to say though — compared to Potter’s finely defined, intricate illustrations, Blake’s look a bit shabby, for lack of a better word. But, that doesn’t really bother me because to reimagine someone else’s work in their particular style is not only an added pressure but it also comes with plenty of judgement, to begin with. The story itself isn’t as good as Potter’s other tales. With too many characters on the go, the hotch-potch narrative becomes quite a task to read.
I do have to say though — compared to Potter’s finely defined, intricate illustrations, Blake’s look a bit shabby, for lack of a better word. But, that doesn’t really bother me because to reimagine someone else’s work in their particular style is not only an added pressure but it also comes with plenty of judgement, to begin with. The story itself isn’t as good as Potter’s other tales. With too many characters on the go, the hotch-potch narrative becomes quite a task to read.
August 25, 2019
This was a whimsical and fun read by Beatrix Potter. The illustrations in this are stunning - I have always been a fan of Quentin Blake’s artwork so I needed to have this book as soon as I saw it!
The story is of a Kitty in boots who the owner thinks is a well behaved cat, that secretly goes out every night as a hunter! It was a cute, very funny and whimsical tale and I loved the inclusion and trickery of some of the old favourites - Tiggy-winkle and Peter Rabbit!
The story is of a Kitty in boots who the owner thinks is a well behaved cat, that secretly goes out every night as a hunter! It was a cute, very funny and whimsical tale and I loved the inclusion and trickery of some of the old favourites - Tiggy-winkle and Peter Rabbit!
January 1, 2017
Not as good as her other stories, you can tell it wasn't finished. Not impressed with the illustrations at all, too messy.
June 18, 2017
„Приказка за Кити в ботушки” (изд. „Труд”) е книжка-събитие за всички почитатели на Биатрикс Потър! Издадена за първи път през 2016 (не само в България, а и изобщо), това е една непозната и нова за читателите приказка от любимата британска детска писателка и илюстраторка. Ръкописът, датиращ от 1914 година, е открит през 2015 из необятните архиви на лондонския музей на изкуството „Victoria and Albert Museum”. И сега, повече от век след написването на приказката, „Кити в ботушки” най-накрая достига до читателите! Прочетете ревюто на "Книжни Криле":
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July 10, 2022
Beatrix potter is one of my favorite author and illustrator of all time. This work is one of her final works which she couldn’t finish the illustrations. So the illustrations are done by a different illustrator when publishing.
The story is not simple and clear as her previous works compared to peter rabbit collection but it’s an exciting story about a naughty kitty who sneak out for hunting at night with a suit and boots. Even though it’s not Beatrix Potters illustrations, the illustrations are wonderful and makes the story better.
The story reflects Beatrix potter’s creativity and show what a wonderful imagination she had.
The story is not simple and clear as her previous works compared to peter rabbit collection but it’s an exciting story about a naughty kitty who sneak out for hunting at night with a suit and boots. Even though it’s not Beatrix Potters illustrations, the illustrations are wonderful and makes the story better.
The story reflects Beatrix potter’s creativity and show what a wonderful imagination she had.
April 14, 2017
5 stars simply because it's Beatrix Potter and to be able to find such a rare gift as an unpublished book by a well known favorite author is simply treasure. Love the quirky illustration by Quentin Blake; It's was the best complement to an author-illustrating not duplicating her characters.
December 16, 2018
A black cat named "Miss Catherine St. Quintin" lives with an old woman, under the alias "Kitty", whom the cat secretly leaves at night to poach for sport until an accident happens. This story was an unpublished sequel in the larger Peter Rabbit series, and it features cameos of multiple characters. Readers sensitive to depictions of gun violence, poaching, and macabre descriptions of dead animals might want to skip this story. While readers interested in a suspenseful tale about dual lives or poaching should be entertained.
May 2, 2020
I've never actually read anything of Beatrix Potter before. This was all quite charming and whimsical! It helps that Helen Mirren and Anna Friel were reading the stories. I may read more of her stories in the future.
April 21, 2019
I liked the story by Potter, but am not overly keen on the scratchy drawing style of Blake.
June 21, 2019
Pretty strange.
May 21, 2021
I didn't love this as much as the classic 23 books I read as a child (and am slowly collecting), but it's so nice that this was finally published and illustrated!
July 5, 2022
Very charming
October 8, 2023
This is such a weird book- its meant to be anti hunting and poaching- which we love, but its done in the strangest way? Kind of jokes
January 13, 2024
The implications of this world make me uncomfortable.
January 31, 2025
Absolutely darling. Quentin Blake’s illustrations were joyful and the story is a new favorite.
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