Yuma Public Library

Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and decides that he never, ever wants to eat bananas again. But Pete really likes bananas! Will one bad banana ruin the whole bunch?

The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff,...

Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

Pete the Cat doesn't do too well while playing in a baseball game with his team, the Rocks, but he isn't sad because he did his best and had fun.

Bluefur, a warrior of ThunderClan, struggles under the weight of a prophecy that promises her glory as Clan leader, but also spells out her ultimate demise.

"Pete the Cat wakes up feeling grumpy--nothing seems to be going his way. But with the help of some magic sunglasses, Pete learns that a good mood has been inside him all along"--

In an adaptation of the classic children's song, Pete the cat and his friends encourage an itsy bitsy spider to keep trying to get up a water spout. The spider never gives up, even when the odds are against her, and the whole group celebrates when she succeeds.

The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household.

Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat who wants to be a Chihuahua dog.

Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and more while singing his special song.