I QUIT

A recently adopted cat is living luxuriously until the strict house rules force the “bad kitty” to quit.

Waiting for adoption is a sad reality for the cat until a young girl spots her and takes her home to bask across chairs, sofas, and freshly folded laundry. Everything is peachy until the cat realizes there are rules: No eating bread, no chasing the baby, no fun. The cat decides to quit and finds herself outside in the dark, with no warmth and nothing soft to sleep on. Rescued from the outdoors by her owner, she happily returns home. In a classic tale of “the grass is always greener,” this feline realizes that life is much better at home than out in the wilderness. The cat is orange with a black striped tail, and the illustrations are mostly from her perspective. The standout images are the nighttime scenes, such as one of the cat peering out the window, backlit in orange. Readers who are paying attention will get a kick out of how the illustrations show the cat technically following the rules (she doesn’t eat the bread, but spilled kibble is free game!), and cat owners everywhere will relate to the antics of this fickle feline. Human characters are light-skinned.

An eye-catching and enjoyable ode to cats, in all their mischievous glory.