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Vicki Myron
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Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton | ||
ISBN | 9780340953945 | ||
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Synopsis
On the coldest morning of the year, Vicki Myron found a tiny, bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked, and her life -- and the town of Spencer, Iowa -- would never be the same. Vicki was a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm and an alcoholic, abusive husband. But her biggest challenge as the new head librarian in Spencer was to raise the spirits of a small, out-of-the-way town mired deep in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Dewey, as the townspeople named the kitten, quickly grew into a strutting, adorable library cat whose antics kept patrons in stitches, and whose sixth sense about those in need created hundreds of deep and loving friendships. As his fame grew, people drove hundreds of miles to meet Dewey, and people all over the world fell in love with him. Through it all, Dewey remained a loyal companion, a beacon of hope not just for Vicki, but for the entire town of Spencer as it slowly, steadily pulled itself up from the worst financial crisis in its long history. Dewey won hearts and proved to everyone he encountered that unconditional love comes in many forms.
Review
Dewey is not just a feel good book about a library cat but about the town of Spencer and of how it struggled to pull itself out of the depths of disaster. But how can a ginger cat help these people? Well when there's no money to spend the place you go for entertainment and warmth is the library, and who was there to greet them but Dewey!
Dewey knew instictively who to go to and when - not only that but how to give his big furry cat love. He was mischievious and playful but his greatest love of all was 'elastic bands' - he couldn't get enough of them and it didn't matter where you hid them he would always somehow a juicy elastic band to munch on!
There is a picture of Dewey in different parts of the library both awake and fast alseep at the beginning of each chapter and over his 19 year reign at Spencer library there are anecdotes a plenty of not only his life but those of the people who came to visit - some coming from countries afar to see this famous cat!I wanted to have one at my own library - maybe then I wouldn't buy so many books!
As the story unfolds so we get to understand the trials and tribulations of the townspeople and also Vicki Myron's personal life - it is an uplifting book, but make sure you have a tissue for the end of the book - I shed a tear or two. I highly recommend it for everyone.
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