Pay Attention to Me!

A hilarious debut picture book where kids will empathize with Edgar the Cat's dreams of stardom while also exploring the downsides that come with it.

Edgar deserves to be famous like all the cats he sees online. Maybe then his human, Quinn, will stop being "too busy" to play and remember to treat him like the star he was born to be.  

But not all attention is the same. Will Edgar choose bright lights and red carpets or is his biggest fan right beneath his whiskers? 

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Pay Attention to Me!

A hilarious debut picture book where kids will empathize with Edgar the Cat's dreams of stardom while also exploring the downsides that come with it.

Edgar deserves to be famous like all the cats he sees online. Maybe then his human, Quinn, will stop being "too busy" to play and remember to treat him like the star he was born to be.  

But not all attention is the same. Will Edgar choose bright lights and red carpets or is his biggest fan right beneath his whiskers? 

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Pay Attention to Me!

Pay Attention to Me!

Pay Attention to Me!

Pay Attention to Me!

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Overview

A hilarious debut picture book where kids will empathize with Edgar the Cat's dreams of stardom while also exploring the downsides that come with it.

Edgar deserves to be famous like all the cats he sees online. Maybe then his human, Quinn, will stop being "too busy" to play and remember to treat him like the star he was born to be.  

But not all attention is the same. Will Edgar choose bright lights and red carpets or is his biggest fan right beneath his whiskers? 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781464233135
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication date: 05/05/2026
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 32
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kate McKean is an agent, teacher, writer, reader. She is the VP at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University in the School of Professional Studies, teaching about agents and publishing. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and kid and their many, many books.


Rob Justus is an award winning author, illustrator and graphic novelist. His graphic novel series Death & Sparkles won the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award in 2023. In 2022, Rob was selected as the illustrator for the prestigious TD Summer Reading Club in Canada. Prior to all this, Rob spent nearly a decade as a market researcher writing very bland reports. Taking a chance on himself, Rob decided to return to his childhood passion of drawing and storytelling and hasn’t looked back. Rob has written and illustrated four picture books and two graphic novels. When Rob isn't drawing silly cats in beautiful Ottawa, Canada, his family is trying to convince him to buy one, but Rob just really wants a dog again.

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