Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World

Hodder & Stoughton, 2009. Faded spine, minor foxing at page edges, good secondhand copy.

On the coldest morning of the year 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. 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, fans 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 single mother Vicki, but for the whole town, as it steadily pulled itself up from the worst financial crisis in its long history...