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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a years-long waitlist.
Dillon Helbig, a second-grader who lives in Idaho, wrote about a Christmas adventure on the pages of a red-cover notebook and illustrated it with colored pencils.
When he finished it in mid-December, he decided he wanted to share it with other people. So much, in fact, that he hatched a plan and waited for just the right moment to pull it off.
Days later, during a visit to the Ada Community Librarys Lake Hazel Branch in Boise with his grandmother, he held the 81-page book to his chest and passed by the librarians. Then, unbeknown to his grandmother, Dillon slipped the book onto a childrens picture-book shelf. Nobody saw him do it.
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The staff librarians who read Dillons book agreed that as informal and unconventional as it was, the book met the selection criteria for the collection in that it was a high-quality story that was fun to read. So, Hartman asked Helbig for permission to tack a bar code onto the book and formally add it to the librarys collection.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-8-year-old-slid-his-handwritten-book-onto-a-library-shelf-it-now-has-a-years-long-waitlist/ar-AATjWuR
SunSeeker
(51,902 posts)Hope he goes on to be a famous author!
dchill
(38,675 posts)betsuni
(25,901 posts)PortTack
(32,847 posts)calimary
(81,651 posts)Talk about taking the direct approach!
YoshidaYui
(41,880 posts)A Great American novelist, either that or work for MARVEL.
tanyev
(42,727 posts)dalton99a
(81,762 posts)ChazII
(6,212 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I hope it doesn't get banned.
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