The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck

This Hand-Drawn Animated Adaptation of The Tale Of Tom Kitten (1907) and The Tale Of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908) by Beatrix Potter in the year 1993, Because of Splendid Hand-Drawn Animation, The Superb Music Score, Excellent Voice Acting and the Enjoyable Characters. The Characters are The Mischievous and Cheeky Kittens are Tom Kitten, Moppet and Mittens are portrayed by the young Alan Bowe, Jenny Moore and Mary Jane Bowe. Their Mother Mrs. Tabitha Twitchet, Who was portrayed by the Late My Family Cast Member Rosemary Leach. Her Cousin Ribby, Who is portrayed by Keeping Up Appearances Cast Member Patricia Routledge. The Sweet-Hearted, But very Naive Puddle-Duck called Jemima Puddle-Duck, Who is portrayed by Hi-De-Hi and Penny Crayon Cast Member Su Pollard. Her Sister-In-Law Rebeccah Puddle-Duck is portrayed by Selina Cadell. Mr. Drake Puddle-Duck The Male Duck, and Kep The Collie Dog, Who rescues Jemima from Mr. Tod The Foxy Whiskered Gentleman, Who are portrayed by Enn Reitel. The Elegant, Sophisticated, Gentlemanly, But Secretly Cunning Fox called Mr. Tod The Foxy Whiskered Gentleman was portrayed by the Late Dinsdale Landen. Beatrix Potter's Narration is portrayed by Niamh Cusack. I'm giving this Cat-Related, Dog-Related, Duck-Related and Fox-Related Adaptation of Beatrix Potter's Stories a 10/10.

Who cannot help loving 'The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends'? While wonderfully made in every single way on its own merits, it is also one of those rarities that all 9 episodes are great and are very faithful in detail and spirit to the original stories.

This reviewer may be criticised for most of her reviews for this show being very similarly worded, but when the strengths are remarkably consistent throughout the show it is hard not to. Personally love all of Beatrix Potter's stories to bits, some a little better than others (for instance "The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck" is a more interesting story to me than "The Tale of Tom Kitten") but all of them are timeless, with simple and charming stories and colourful characters.

Even the animation adheres very closely to Potter's illustrations. To me "The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny" and "The Tailor of Gloucester" are the best of the series, but as said all the episodes are great and all the stories are timeless in their own way. Along with those two and "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers", "The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle Duck" were the ones this reviewer was most familiar with as a child. The merging of both stories is clever, though the darker "The Tale of Jemima Duck" (for the climax, the darkest and most intense of the series along with "The Tale of Mr. Tod") is a more interesting story to me than the cuter "The Tale of Tom Kitten".

It's wonderful visually as with all the episodes. Not just the animation, which are as said like Potter's illustrations come to life, being colourful, quaintly charming and carefully drawn, but also the charming and exquisitely filmed book-end live action scenes (having the same introduction of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny", which is my favourite of the introductions) complete with splendid period detail and the scenery is just wondrous.

Music is equally memorable, with a return to the more understated, quaint and melodic incidental music of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny" and "The Tailor of Gloucester". The music accompanying the introduction and the exquisitely sung (by Miriam Stockley) rendition of "Perfect Day" particularly stand out, though all the music matches the action and visuals flawlessly and even enhances the impact.

Dialogue is beautifully written and again sticks very closely to the writing of the story, with a cosy, sweet and relaxing atmosphere in "The Tale of Tom Kitten" and an equally cosy and relaxing but darker and more intense atmosphere in "The Tale of Jemima Duck". One is fully immersed in Beatrix Potter's world, and the characters are as colourful as ever, Jemima is the one that most are familiar with the most but Mr. Tod the fox is the juiciest. Tom Kitten and the other kittens are cute though.

Voice acting is very good, with Dinsdale Langden superb as Mr. Tod. Niamh Cusack plays Beatrix Potter perfectly, and narrates the story with an understated but involving tone.

All in all, another wonderful episode of a beautiful show, that is as great to an adult as it is to a child. 10/10 Bethany Cox