Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the animals and robots we love—to the (real) Scout & Stu, and the (real) Joan Drone, Drags, Cy & Tipsy—plus Jiji & Kiki, who slept on the keyboard, and Peanut, who watched over our editor, Katherine.

It takes a litter, people.

This book is also dedicated to—and illustrated by—our child Kay Peterson, who is neither a cat nor a robot but a gifted visual artist who teaches everyone around them, every day, that people can be different without being at war.

—M.S. and L.P.