Cherie loves being the only kitty in the Smith family . . . until the day a new kitten arrives.

The new kitten is allowed to be naughty, but Cherie is not. The new kitten follows Cherie everywhere she goes. The new kitten wants to be Cherie's best friend, even when Cherie hisses, ?Go away!?

Cherie just wants to be the only kitty once again. When the new kitten gets herself in trouble one day, will Cherie be able to help her?

Two cats learn how to share a family and a home in this charming picture book from acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates and illustrator Dave Mottram.

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.