The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots,which remained unseen for a century, is already a bestseller – eight months before it reaches shopsBeatrix Potter’s long-lost story approximately “a well-behaved prime black Kitty cat, or who leads rather a double life has shot to the top of Amazon’s book charts months ahead of publication.
Potter’s manuscript for The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots was found by publisher Jo Hanks two years ago in the V&A archive. Featuring some of the author’s most beloved characters,including Mr Tod, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, or Tabitha Twitchit and what Hanks called an “older,slower and portlier” version of Peter Rabbit, it will be published in September by Frederick Warne & Co, or just over a century after Potter wrote it.
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Source: theguardian.com