![]() **Important: Our cats are in foster homes. We would love to hear from you! To inquire about this cat, please contact us via this site, visit /forms/ to fill out our adoption application, or call 50. Beatrix is very gentle and will make a great addition to almost any house.Īdoption fee: $70.00 (6% KY sales tax included) She loves a good cardboard box, a nice soft cat bed close to her humans, and a lofty perch. Beatrix is very quiet when she's excited she might chirp or churl but she doesn't seem to have much of a meow. She's dealt well with the other cats in her foster home, even when they are unpleasant to her. The manuscript was stashed among her papers following her death in 1943.Beatrix Potter is an affectionate young cat with an easy-going personality. In her last reference to the Kitty book, in 1914, she said she did not have time to do the illustrations. Potter’s letters to her publisher reveal that she encountered various distractions, including colds, marriage, sheep farming and the beginning of World War I, and set the story aside. Tiggy-Winkle, Ribby and Tabitha Twitchit, have cameos. Other familiar Potter characters, including Mr. ![]() The story centers on a rebellious cat with a protective owner, who sneaks out at night, at one point stalking an older, wiser and chubbier Peter Rabbit. “I realized we had something truly phenomenal on our hands, a fantastic story that I wanted people to be able to read.” Hanks said on Tuesday in a telephone interview. “No one who was aware of it thought of it as a piece of publishing in its own right,” Ms. ![]() Though the story was not unknown to Potter scholars, Potter’s publisher apparently did not realize that there was a complete story stashed among her papers until Ms. Tod, and a dummy book with some of the manuscript laid out. Hanks went to the Potter archives at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and, with the help of archivists, found three drafts of the story, handwritten in children’s school notebooks, along with a color sketch of Kitty-in-Boots, a pencil rough sketch of the villain, Mr. Hanks was struck by a letter Potter wrote to her editor in 1914, which mentioned a story about “a well-behaved prime black Kitty cat, who leads a rather double life.” The book also referred to an unedited manuscript of the story. Hanks was doing research for “The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit,” a continuation of Potter’s Peter Rabbit stories written by the actress Emma Thompson, and picked up a 1971 literary history about Potter by the scholar Leslie Linder. The search for the manuscript began two years ago, when Jo Hanks, the publisher of Penguin Random House Children’s in Britain, stumbled across a reference to an unfamiliar Potter character named Kitty. “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” has sold more than 45 million copies globally since first being published in 1902, and more than two million of her children’s tales sell globally each year. The discovery of a previously unpublished 72-page story by Potter, who is best known for her classic children’s book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” adds a surprising footnote to her body of work, which remains popular more than 70 years after her death. ![]() Now the manuscript, recovered from Potter’s archives in London, will finally be released this fall by Penguin Random House, the publisher announced on Tuesday. Though Potter went on to write at least three drafts of the story, she never got around to illustrating it fully. “Once upon a time there was a serious, well-behaved young black cat.”īeatrix Potter wrote those words in a notebook more than 100 years ago, when she began work on “The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots,” about a well-mannered cat who leads a double life.
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