Don’t Leave

2026

• Book

Don’t Leave is an absolutely hiss-terical picture book that lovingly celebrates cat companions, even when they are at their clingiest. Fans of Cat Problems and Mother Bruce will not want to miss this standalone follow-up to I Quit!

Once, I was the center of everything.

Until . . . the suitcases came out. Why would they want to go anywhere without me? So I did a very sensible thing. I joined the vacation. Except . . . Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. I did not end up at the beach. And it didn’t smell quite like the forest. Perhaps I was a city cat now?

Ugh. How will I get out of this mess? Read my story to find out.

Written by Kristen Tracy
Illustrated by Federico Fabiani
Published by Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026