Library

How influential can an animal be? How many people can a cat touch? How can an abandoned kitten transform a small library, save a traditional American town, and eventually become world-famous? If you haven't heard the story of Dewey the library cat in Spencer, Iowa, you may not have an answer. The story of Dewey the Cat seems extremely impossible. On the coldest night of that year, kitten Dewey, only a few weeks old, was thrown into the book return box in the Spencer Library. Library director Vicki Myron is a single mother whose former husband was an alcoholic, suffering from the bankruptcy of her family farm and breast cancer, but still living strong. The next morning, she found Dewey the kitten. After being rescued, the kitten Dewey barely managed to hold up his limping legs. With a gesture full of gratitude and love, he rubbed every hand that touched him, winning Vicky's heart and the hearts of everyone in the library. Over the next nineteen years, Dewey the Cat moved and attracted the residents of the town with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility and keen sixth sense (Dewey the Cat always knew who needed him most).