Librarian Gets Book Deal to Write About Special Library Cat
Librarian Vicki Myron has signed a $1.2 million book deal to write about the Spencer Library's famous cat named Dewey Readmore Books. Dewey was found in the library's book drop on a cold January morning. He was named after the Dewey Decimal system. Dewey passed away last November at age 19.
Now, Myron has signed a $1.2 million deal with Grand Central Publishing, formerly Warner Books, to write the story of Dewey's life, how it intertwined with hers and the impact his life had on others.
"It's been huge," Myron said. "It's been worldwide."
Myron found Dewey in the library's book drop on a cold January morning in 1988. After that, Dewey became famous worldwide, she said. TV crews came to the small northwest Iowa town from as far away as Japan to do stories on Dewey, and Myron said she has found more than 200 "hits" for Dewey on the Internet search engine Google.
Never could she have imagined the attention Dewey would get when she found him that cold winter morning.
"It just floored me," Myron said. "This is the way Dewey's whole life went. He drew people in his whole life from around the world. We had nothing to do with it. It's serendipitous.
You can read more about Dewey here on the Spencer Library website. The page contains Dewey's job description as well as some rules for cats that have a library to run.
