8-year-old from Idaho hides book he wrote on library shelf and now it’s a hit

SHAH ALAM - Who would have thought that a mischievous stunt would make a young boy famous with his own one-and-only copy of a novel.

This was what happened to eight-year-old Dillon Helbig who snuck his meticulously handwritten book in a local library while he went there on a trip with his grandmother in the town of Boise, Idaho, United States (US).

He was reported saying to BBC News that it was not an easy task to slip the sole copy of his book on one of the shelves without the librarians and others noticing.

"There were a lot of librarians that I had to sneak past, so do you know what I did? I covered up this part and covered the back with my body and just snuck it in.

"I'm always sneaky, like how I get chocolates,'' he told the television station.

Instead of dismissing the novel written by the child, the library decided to process it and added the masterpiece to its collection.

The library manager, Alex Hartman described young Dillon’s novel as ‘a book that definitely fits all the criteria for its collection’, which is a respectable justification of the library’s judgement.

Dillon gave his first book the title ‘The Adventures of Dillon Helbig's Crismis’ and named the author as 'Dillon Helbig His Self'.

The 81-page novel revolved around Dillon’s very own adventure of decorating his Christmas tree with fictional elements in the mix as the story depicted his journey to the past - the year 1621 when Thanksgiving Day was first celebrated in the US.

It was not surprising that 56 people were on the waiting list to borrow the book.

Good news was that this book will have a sequel and it already has a title - ‘The Jacket-Eating Closet’ and best of all, it's a story based on true events.