The book is not only a tribute to a cat-anthropomorphized to a degree that can strain credulity (Dewey plays hide and seek with Myron, can read her thoughts, is mortified by his hair balls)-it's a love letter to libraries. DEWEY - The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Why Was Dewey Written There was something magical about this lovable orange cat named Dewey Readmore Books and the small town library where he lived. With the other, eats rubber bands and becomes a media darling. It is an adaptation for younger readers of Vicki Myrons bestseller Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. Not just by one person, but by hundreds, for years. Why was Dewey written Because I was asked to write it.

She quickly rose to become director, realizing early on that this “was a job I could love for the rest of my life.” Dewey, meanwhile, brings disabled children out of their shells, invites businessmen to pet him with one hand while holding the Wall Street Journal There was something magical about this lovable orange cat named Dewey Readmore Books and the small town library where he lived. After her divorce, Myron graduated college (the first in her family) and stumbled into a library job. Through her developing relationship with the feline, Myron recounts the economic and social history of Spencer as well as her own success story-despite an alcoholic husband, living on welfare, and health problems ranging from the difficult birth of her daughter, Jodi, to breast cancer.

And in this tender story, Myron, the library director, tells of the impact the cat, named DeweyReadmore Books, had on the library and its patrons, and on Myron herself.

One frigid Midwestern winter night in 1988, a ginger kitten was shoved into the after-hours book-return slot at the public library in Spencer, Iowa.

Dewey by vicki myron