A review by sidebraid
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron

3.0

At the risk of alienating approximately 5.3 million die-hard fans of this book, I thought reading this book was at times slightly painful in the way that reading a third-grader's homework can be slightly painful. Specifically, I find it a tad depressing that an accomplished and committed librarian (as Vicki Myron seems to be) can still inappropriately opt for "lay" instead of "lie" in a book that goes on to become a New York Times bestseller. But I also recognize that I'm weird about this, and most people won't realize, let alone care.

Occasional grammatical inaccuracies aside, I enjoyed this book very much. I can't say exactly why, because I don't think I'm the sort of reader who easily falls for a cute and plucky kitten, even one shoved through a library dropbox on the coldest day of the year. But Vicki Myron is so obviously writing straight from her heart in every paragraph that I started to identify with her championing of Dewey and the struggles she encounters as a result.