54. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

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54. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

I was a bit worried about this book for two reasons:

1. it’s about a cute animal so you know it’s going to die (the jacket cover gives you a heads up) and

2. it was 277 pages long, and while I consider myself an animal lover, there’s not a lot in me that wants to read about other people’s pets, much less about just one pet for the length of an entire book.

That said, it’s a sweet story, and just when you start to get bored of Dewey stories the author goes into growing up in small-town, rural Iowa, farm life, library stuff, and family stuff. So it’s not ALL about the cat. So if you like stories about cats, cats, libraries, cats in libraries, Iowa, kittens, wholesomeness, and/or good cat kitty cats then this book is for you. It really was a sweet story.

And yeah, even though I have a rock-hard metal heart of moonrock ice stone, and even though I knew it was coming, even though I told myself that Dewey had an AMAZING 19 year life, I cried like a little girl.

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