A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Beatrix Potter's The Story of Miss Moppet (1906): a Mouse teases a kitten, the kitten ties a duster around her head and tricks him into coming close, and then she forgets the hole in the duster, so the Mouse gets away to dance a jig on top of the cupboard.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Story of Miss Moppet: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Scritch, scratch! Miss Moppet the kitten pricks up her ears. Is that a mouse?
Out pops a Mouse to tease her. Tee-hee! He is not afraid of a kitten.
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