Beatrix Potter 16 min read

A poor tailor of Gloucester falls ill before he can finish the mayor's wedding coat, but in the night, small helping hands and 'no more twist' work a Christmas wonder.

Beatrix Potter's 1903 tale, her own favorite, is a beloved classic of children's literature. Tender, magical, perfect. Read it for one of the loveliest of all Christmas stories, the kindly tailor, the grateful mice, and the wicked cat Simpkin, told and illustrated with Potter's incomparable warmth, delicacy, and grace.

In its time

Published in 1903, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

16 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).