Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller & a publishing phenomenon. It spent more than seven months on the New York Times bestseller list nearly the entire time in the top five. It has sold nearly a million copies spawned three children's books & will be the basis for a movie starring Meryl Streep that is in the works. No doubt about it this is one beloved cat. But he's more than just a bestselling franchise: Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem or how ordinary their talents they can
- & should
- make a positive difference to those around them. Dewey's Nine Lives continues the formula that made Dewey so successful: inspiring funny & heart-warming stories about cats told from the perspective of ' Dewey's Mum ' librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey of course whose further never-before-told adventures & amazing legacy are chronicled but several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned through extensive interviews & story sharing what made these cats special & how they fit into Dewey's community of perseverance & love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a post-traumatic stress-disorder
- suffering veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh cry care & most importantly believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.