Laura Hamilton narrates the chapter book with panache and warmth."[10]. Having been abandoned in the library's drop box in January 1988, he was adopted by the library and gained local attention for his story shortly thereafter. Having been abandoned in the library's drop box in January 1988, he was adopted by the library and gained local attention for his story shortly thereafter. [2] In addition to discussing Dewey's life from his discovery in the library drop bin on a cold winter's night, to his unlikely fame, to his death in 2006, Myron covers issues in her life as she dealt with illness and the challenges of being a single mother. [15][16] A public memorial service was held in December 2006 and his cremated remains were buried outside of the library.
[7][8], Library cats have been used to befriend patrons, boost librarian morale, and inspire reading and literacy programs.
It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. He lived in Iowa's Spencer Public Library for 19 years. He had achieved an age equivalent to a human in his nineties. The story moves along swiftly, and will be a hit with readers requesting animal books. [4], Library cats have appeared as characters in books and movies,[5] are immortalized in stone in front of their institutions,[4] and some are given positions on the institution's board. The condition was aggravated by his refusal to eat foods that would ease his condition, as he was a notoriously finicky eater. Vicki Myron (Spencer, 1947) è una scrittrice statunitense, autrice del libro Io e Dewey.. Biografia. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. [5], In 1990 Myron entered Dewey into a charity pet photograph contest at Spencer's Shopko as a way to promote the library; Dewey won the contest by a landslide, after receiving more than 80% of the votes. [23] Myron and Witter published a sequel, Dewey's Nine Lives, in 2010, detailing previously unreleased stories about Dewey, as well as tales Myron heard about other cats after Dewey's death. It describes how on a cold night Myron found a tiny kitten in the return box at Spencer Public Library in Iowa, and the feline's impact on the library community. His story became so well known that, af… In one case, there were attempts to remove a cat from a library, based upon concerns of patrons with allergies claiming violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To start the last paragraph: - Based on their first book, Myron and Witter published two children's books: Dewey, the Library Cat, a picture book for young children and Dewey: The True Story of a World-Famous Library Cat, a book for middle-grade readers. "In the Wonderland of Libraries Are Cats Like Alis", "Cats, get off the page! [8] An appearance in the June/July 1990 issue of Country magazine took Dewey's story national, after which eleven people claimed to have been the person who left Dewey in the book drop as a way to protect him from the cold. "This heartwarming picture book is based on the authors' adult title, Dewey (Grand Central, 2008). In addition, she wrote a sequel Dewey's Nine Lives (2010) and that year also published a third children's book, Dewey's Christmas at the Library. Despite numerous offers, the library placed a two-year moratorium on getting a new cat. Dewey's caretaker, head librarian Vicki Myron, published a book on Dewey's life in 2008, entitled Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, which became a New York Times number one nonfiction bestseller. Although Dewey's exact date of birth is unknown, he was approximately two months old on his discovery and the library celebrated his birthday on November 18. http://www.spencerlibrary.com/p/dewey-library-cat.html, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Dewey Decimal library classification system, "Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions", "The Librarian Recommends:"Dewey's Christmas at the Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dewey_Readmore_Books&oldid=979835872, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 02:14. "[3] While a film adaptation was discussed in 2008, with Meryl Streep to play Myron, the project was never fully developed. The lives of library cats were studied by Gary Roma, a documentarian who produced a film entitled Puss in Books: Adventures of the Library Cat. The library decided to keep him as a library cat and his story first received publicity in the Spencer Daily Reporter a week after his discovery.
The relationship between cats and libraries is centuries old. Myron nursed the cat, which was suffering from frostbite,[1] back to health and named him Dewey, after Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal library classification system.
His fame soon grew nationally, then internationally, and he was featured in a variety of mediums, including Paul Harvey's radio program The Rest of the Storyand a Japanese documentary about cats. On January 18, 1988, Vicki Myron, a librarian at the Spencer Public Library, discovered an eight-week-old male kitten that had been left in the library's drop box the previous night. [13] Shortly before November 18, he was diagnosed with a painful stomach tumor. Library cats are domesticated cats that live in public libraries worldwide.
[7][8], Library cats have been used to befriend patrons, boost librarian morale, and inspire reading and literacy programs.
It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. He lived in Iowa's Spencer Public Library for 19 years. He had achieved an age equivalent to a human in his nineties. The story moves along swiftly, and will be a hit with readers requesting animal books. [4], Library cats have appeared as characters in books and movies,[5] are immortalized in stone in front of their institutions,[4] and some are given positions on the institution's board. The condition was aggravated by his refusal to eat foods that would ease his condition, as he was a notoriously finicky eater. Vicki Myron (Spencer, 1947) è una scrittrice statunitense, autrice del libro Io e Dewey.. Biografia. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. [5], In 1990 Myron entered Dewey into a charity pet photograph contest at Spencer's Shopko as a way to promote the library; Dewey won the contest by a landslide, after receiving more than 80% of the votes. [23] Myron and Witter published a sequel, Dewey's Nine Lives, in 2010, detailing previously unreleased stories about Dewey, as well as tales Myron heard about other cats after Dewey's death. It describes how on a cold night Myron found a tiny kitten in the return box at Spencer Public Library in Iowa, and the feline's impact on the library community. His story became so well known that, af… In one case, there were attempts to remove a cat from a library, based upon concerns of patrons with allergies claiming violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To start the last paragraph: - Based on their first book, Myron and Witter published two children's books: Dewey, the Library Cat, a picture book for young children and Dewey: The True Story of a World-Famous Library Cat, a book for middle-grade readers. "In the Wonderland of Libraries Are Cats Like Alis", "Cats, get off the page! [8] An appearance in the June/July 1990 issue of Country magazine took Dewey's story national, after which eleven people claimed to have been the person who left Dewey in the book drop as a way to protect him from the cold. "This heartwarming picture book is based on the authors' adult title, Dewey (Grand Central, 2008). In addition, she wrote a sequel Dewey's Nine Lives (2010) and that year also published a third children's book, Dewey's Christmas at the Library. Despite numerous offers, the library placed a two-year moratorium on getting a new cat. Dewey's caretaker, head librarian Vicki Myron, published a book on Dewey's life in 2008, entitled Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, which became a New York Times number one nonfiction bestseller. Although Dewey's exact date of birth is unknown, he was approximately two months old on his discovery and the library celebrated his birthday on November 18. http://www.spencerlibrary.com/p/dewey-library-cat.html, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Dewey Decimal library classification system, "Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions", "The Librarian Recommends:"Dewey's Christmas at the Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dewey_Readmore_Books&oldid=979835872, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 02:14. "[3] While a film adaptation was discussed in 2008, with Meryl Streep to play Myron, the project was never fully developed. The lives of library cats were studied by Gary Roma, a documentarian who produced a film entitled Puss in Books: Adventures of the Library Cat. The library decided to keep him as a library cat and his story first received publicity in the Spencer Daily Reporter a week after his discovery.
The relationship between cats and libraries is centuries old. Myron nursed the cat, which was suffering from frostbite,[1] back to health and named him Dewey, after Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal library classification system.
His fame soon grew nationally, then internationally, and he was featured in a variety of mediums, including Paul Harvey's radio program The Rest of the Storyand a Japanese documentary about cats. On January 18, 1988, Vicki Myron, a librarian at the Spencer Public Library, discovered an eight-week-old male kitten that had been left in the library's drop box the previous night. [13] Shortly before November 18, he was diagnosed with a painful stomach tumor. Library cats are domesticated cats that live in public libraries worldwide.