The Tale of Two Bad Mice

Once upon a time, Hunca Munca and Tom Thumb, two mice, put out heir heads and saw there was no one in the nursery, so they ventured out and went cautiously across the hearthrug. They pushed the front door…


Norman Warne, Beatrix Potter’s editor and later fiancé, made a beautiful doll’s house as a Christmas gift for his favourite niece, Winifred. This house inspired the drawings in this book and can still be seen in Hill Top, the farm Beatrix Potter bought in 1905. The story was inspired by two mice caught in a mouse-trap in her cousin’s home. The Tale of Two Bad Mice was published for the first time in 1904.