The Story of Miss Moppet is a little sketch, a vignette rather than a tale, about a kitten's attempt to catch a mouse. The model for Miss Moppet was a pretty and mischievous kitten Beatrix Potter borrowed from a mason at Hill Top, her country residence. She made many drawings of the kitten in the summer of 1906 and used them to illustrate not only Miss Moppet but also her next book The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907). Miss Moppet and her brother Tom Kitten also appear in the 1908 book The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding.