Beatrix Potter has enchanted children for generations with stories such as “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and now, more than 70 years after her death, another tale is being added to the Potter collection.

This month, Penguin Random House is publishing a new Potter book entitled, "The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots” -- a story that had been forgotten for decades before its discovery just three years ago.

Editor Jo Hanks uncovered the story while looking through Penguin Random House’s archive. There, she found an out-of-print collection of various Potter’s writings, including a letter from Potter to her publisher.

The letter mentioned the story of a well-behaved black cat entitled, “The Tale of Kitty in Boots.” It was a story Hanks had never heard of.

“As I read on, I realized this was a full story that Potter had written in her lifetime and it was just never published. So it was pretty phenomenal,” Hanks told CTV News Channel from London.

Once Hanks tracked down the story, she found it was “absolutely brilliant,” she said.

“It’s about a very naughty cat who goes out hunting at night, unbeknownst to her owner. Her owner thinks she’s the perfect lap cat and well-behaved. She absolutely isn’t,” says Hanks.

Along the way, Kitty meets several characters well-known to Potter fans, including Miss TiggleWinkle, Mr. Toad and even Peter Rabbit.

“It’s Harry Potter-like. There are great characters, it’s fun, you’re on the edge of your seat because Kitty manages to get into all kinds of scrapes and you always wonder whether she’s going to be able to get herself out,” Hanks said.

As for why the story went missing for so long, Hanks thinks it’s because, by the time she penned the tale, she had become deeply interested in farming, buying large tracts of land with the royalties from her books.

Not only did managing those properties take up her time, the 41-year-old had recently married and moved to the Lake District with her husband.

“She became less interested in writing stories because her eyesight had started to fail so she couldn’t illustrate in the same way she used to. So for those reasons I think she wrote it and set it aside and never went back to it,” says Hanks.

With only one complete illustration to go on, Penguin Random House sought out children’s author and illustrator Quentin Blake to complete the book. Blake is well-known to many young readers as he the illustrator of many of Roald Dahl’s most famous works.

The now 83-year-old Blake was able to create illustrations similar to Potter’s, but with his own signature touch.

“I think they’re just superb,” Hanks says of the drawings.

Hanks says she hopes this new book opens up Potter’s works to a new generation of young readers.

“I think people of today will really enjoy it.”