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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Book a prize: Idaho library has wait list for story eight-year-old hid on a shelf

Dillon Helbig sneaked his handwritten book into the stories section of his local library, which named him its best young novelist.
Dillon Helbig sneaked his handwritten book into the stories section of his local library, which named him its best young novelist. Photograph: Isabelle Plasschaert/Alamy

When eight-year-old Dillon Helbig finished writing his book, The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis, in mid-December, he wanted everyone to read it. The only problem was that he did not have an agent.

So he decided to self-publish. During a visit with his grandmother to the Lake Hazel branch of the Ada Community Library in Boise, Idaho, Dillon quietly deposited his book, signed “by Dillon His Self”, on to a nearby shelf.

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