Dewey the library cat may have passed away, but he will live on in books. Iowa librarian Vicki Myron, who made the stray famous in Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, has a seven-figure deal for a new book. according to Publishers Weekly.

Myron hit bestseller lists with her 2008 book about caring for a cat found in a book deposit bin in the winter of 1988. Dewey, named for the Decimal System, died in 2006. Myron was cat-less until earlier this year, when she adopted a stray that she named Page (shown here).

Two picture books about Dewey are coming — the first, Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library, is due September 1, PW said. There's also talk of a movie. The big advance -- $2 million, according to PW's industry sources -- was for Dewey's Nine Lives. Myron's agent said it would detail the "amazing relationships between cats and their people" and feature new stories about Dewey. Bret Witter, who co-wrote the original Dewey, will work with Myron on Nine Lives, scheduled for fall 2010.