Dewey, The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World, by Vicki Myron
Dewey Readmore Books was a library cat for 18 years in the town of Spencer, Iowa. He was a public cat, one who loved his library and its patrons, and he belonged to the whole town. Vicki Myron was his first human. She found him in a book drop, where someone had stuffed him one frozen night, and they adopted each other right away.
Dewey became the emblem of the library and of the town, and he was famous world-wide. The book, Dewey, The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World, is a love letter written by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter to Dewey, to the town of Spencer and the state of Iowa. It's a little saccharine for me sometimes, but I'm not a cat lover and I've never had pets. Don't go by me. It's a heartwarming memoir of a small-town librarian who believed the libraries should be community centers much more than a collection of books, and of the cat who helped her spread that message.
