Following the runaway success of the story of Dewey the library cat from Iowa USA, the story of Casper the commuting cat from Plymouth (UK) is to be told.
Dewey: The Small-town Library-cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron (available for loan from the school library at 636.8 MYR) tells the story of an adorable library cat whose antics kept library users in stitches. On the coldest morning of the year, Vicki Myron found a tiny, bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked, and her life — and the town of Spencer, Iowa — would never be the same.
Casper became an international celebrity last year after it was revealed that he regularly caught the No 3 bus from his home in Plymouth for the 11-mile (18km) round trip into the city centre. The 12-year-old black and white cat would queue patiently with other commuters and, if there was a spare seat on the bus, would curl up and fall asleep. Casper, who had been making the journey for several years, was killed by a car last week and New York publishers Simon and Schuster intend to publish a book telling his life story.
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