( Baker & Taylor)Įxperience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey ( Booklist), whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world - over 2 million copies sold!ĭewey's story starts in the worst possible way. 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.-From publisher description.
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. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. Depression, ennui seemed to be everywhere.The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. The people of Spencer were going through tough times during the farm crisis of that time. It opened its mouth, but the sound which came two seconds later, was weak and ragged." But one look into his big eyes and she was Dewey's and he was hers.ĭewey was not the only one who had endured hardship - Vicki was a single mom who had lost the family farm and survived an abusive husband. "The poor kitten was so weak it could barely hold up its head, and it was shaking uncontrollably. It was the most pitiful thing she had ever seen, so thin she could see every rib, and she could feel its heart beating, its lungs pumping.
(Click to play the documentary of Dewey the Library Cat)
Being metal the box was even colder than it was outside, and there in a corner of the box was a tiny kitten. The opening of the box was only a few inches wide, so whatever it was had to be very small. Soon, they both heard the noise and thought it was an animal. "It was a killing freeze, the kind that made it almost painful to breathe." When Vicki arrived at the library that morning her assistant told her she had heard a noise coming from a metal slot, the library's after-hours drop box behind the building. Remember Marley: A Dog Like No Other, a canine greatly loved by his master? Well, here is Dewey, an abandoned orange kitten not only beloved by his mistress but by the entire town of Spencer, Iowa.ĭewey's origins were questionable as was his introduction to library director Vicki Myron.
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