By VIKTORIA SUNDQVIST

If you like cats, books and libraries, then you need to read about “Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World.”

Dewey is a very special cat, because he loves people. It’s lucky his life is at a library in Spencer, Iowa, because he gets to meet dozens of people every day. Vicki Myron, the library director who found Dewey in the book drop one cold January morning, tells the story of how the little orange kitten changed her life.

It is wonderful to follow Vicki and Dewey on their day-to-day activities in and around the library. From the book cart (Dewey’s favorite) to board meetings where the cat is the center of attention, and Dewey’s diet of rubber bands is a constant topic of conversation, the reader gets a clear look at what life is like when a charming and outgoing cat is a part of your life.

You also get to know Vicki – where she came from, how she grew up and how she came to be a librarian – and the town where they live. Perhaps that’s the only minus for me with this book – there’s a little too much background and history of this small Iowa town.

I just wanted to read more about Dewey, and found the other chapters a bit overwhelming. A crazy orange cat who carries around his own red ball of yarn and loves to sleep under the Christmas tree – that, I could read about for hours.