For the next 19 years, he charmed the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility (for a cat), and his sixth sense about who needed him the most. Dewey won her and the staff over by nudging each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. He was found the next day by the library director Vicki Myron, who had struggles of her own. At a few weeks old, he was stuffed into a return slot at the Spencer Public Library. Not only is it a wonderful fulfillment of my love of cats, but it’s also a loveable and touching story on how one feline changed a community.ĭewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World is about Dewey Readmore Books – the library cat of Spencer, Iowa. Reading this title couldn’t have come at a better time. I had been in need of a cat fix since one of the ones I knew passed away two months before reading this biography, and it helped that National Library Week was last week. I had this occurrence recently when I picked up the Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. When that happens, I’ll know I have to read it right then and there. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility (for a cat), and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most.Īs his fame grew from town to town, then state to state and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming community slowly working its way back from the greatest crisis in its long history.Every now and then, a book will show up at the right place and the right time. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. He was found the next morning by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. On the coldest night of the year in Spencer, Iowa, at only a few weeks old-a critical age for kittens-he was stuffed into the return book slot of the Spencer Public Library. Title: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the WorldĮxperience the uplifting, unforgettable New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world - with over 2 million copies sold! ( Booklist)ĭewey's story starts in the worst possible way.

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