Take Care of Your Own Book
The pet is a book.
A literary-themed Book variant to care for.
Source and credit
This variant was made by cheeseandcatlover, remixed from the original Take Care of Your Own Shadow Milk by GPE_sb3.
- Plays on Scratch
- 195
- Loves
- 7
- Remixes of this
- 0
- First shared
- 25 August 2025
Playing above via the official Scratch player. View project #1209290797 on Scratch Figures above as recorded on 5 August 2026.
About Take Care of Your Own Book
The joke here is the category error: a book has no needs, and the game asks you to attend to them anyway. Short, and more interesting as a comment on the genre than as a game. It is also among the least-played entries in the collection, so treat it as a curiosity rather than a headline.
What cheeseandcatlover says about it
The author's note is pure enthusiasm for the character, in capitals, at length.
What to know before you start
- Hunger drains fastest at 0.5% per second β it is the meter to watch first.
- Energy falls at 0.3%, hygiene at 0.2%, and health only slips once hunger or energy drops under 20%.
- Nothing in the game tells you the right move. Neglect is a valid way to play it.
Tags: book Β· variant Β· virtual pet
Questions about Take Care of Your Own Book
- Who made Take Care of Your Own Book?
- A Scratch user called cheeseandcatlover, as project #1209290797. It is a remix of TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN SHADOW MILK! by GPE_sb3, so the underlying code is GPE_sb3's work and the character and art changes are cheeseandcatlover's.
- Is Take Care of Your Own Book free to play?
- Yes. It runs in the browser through the official Scratch player embedded on this page, with no download, no install and no account. You can also play it directly on Scratch at https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1209290797/.
- How do you play Take Care of Your Own Book?
- You look after a character whose four meters β hunger, energy, hygiene and health β drain in real time whether or not you are watching. Feeding, washing, resting and playing each move different meters by different amounts. Hunger falls fastest, at roughly half a percent per second, and health only starts slipping once hunger or energy drops below twenty percent. Nothing in the interface tells you the correct move, and neglecting the character is a valid way to play it.
- How popular is Take Care of Your Own Book?
- As recorded on 5 August 2026 it had 195 plays and 7 loves on Scratch, where it was first shared on 25 August 2025. These are Scratch's own public counters, so they will have moved since.
- Is Take Care of Your Own Book the same as the original Shadow Milk game?
- No. It shares the original's code and four-meter structure, but the character, artwork and often the pacing are different. If you want the version everything else here descends from, play Take Care of Your Own Shadow Milk instead.