Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Author(s): Vicki Myron

Animals

The heartwarming and inspiring #1 New York Times bestseller that has sold over 1.2 million copies! Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. 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. 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. 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. As 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 town pulling its way slowly back from the greatest crisis in its long history.


Product Information

'A HUGELY ENJOYABLE true story of how one adorable library cat touched the lives of everyone who met him' -- Australian Women's Weekly 20081105 'Inspiring hope and happiness' -- Daily Telegraph 20081112 'Dewey will do for cats what Marley & Me did for dogs' -- ALIVE Magazine 20081112

Vicki Myron has been a librarian at the library in Spencer, Iowa for twenty-five years.

General Fields

  • : 9780340960776
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • : 0.386
  • : 01 October 2008
  • : 238mm X 183mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Vicki Myron
  • : Paperback
  • : export ed
  • : English
  • : 636.80092/9
  • : 288
  • : Cats; Biography & autobiography
  • : illustrations