Published by HarperCollins in July 2026, The Skeleton and the Cat was Scott's author-illustrator debut and became a National Indie Bestseller.^1,2 The book is the first in a series and grew out of Dead Cat, a personal project of daily paintings imagining “the whimsical (after)life and times of death and a cat”.² His other illustrated books include A Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree and its follow-up A Bear, a Fish, and a Fishy Wish, both written by Daniel Bernstrom for Hippo Park, and I Was Born a Baby and I Live in a Tree Trunk for HarperCollins.^3,4,5,6