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Book Review of Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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A few bricks and mortar bookstores have resident cats, but not many libraries. The cat turned out to be good on television (doing more than napping) and Ms. Myron explains how this played into her efforts to improve the library. Spencer suffered a large fire in 1931 and rebuilt, but the 1980s decline in the farm economy almost did the town in.
Dewey was a kitten stuffed through the book drop at the Spencer, Iowa, public library and resided there for nineteen years.
The book includes all the details: "Dewey was still constipated, so on Dr. Esterly's orders I copied a page out of a calendar and hung it on the wall. Every time someone found a present in Dewey's litter box, they marked the date. The calendar was known throughout the office as Dewey's Poop Chart."
Chart of Dewey's nutritional likes and dislikes. No index.