Story at a glance
- A second-grader in Idaho wrote a Christmas story on the pages of a red hardcover notebook and hid it in a library.
- The book, entitled “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis,” is now in high demand.
- After discovering the book, librarians at the Ada Community Library’s Lake Hazel branch placed the 81-page-book into its graphic novel section.
A handwritten Christmas story by a Boise second grader left for others to read at his local library is now in high demand.
Eight-year-old Dillon Helbig wrote and illustrated an 81-page-long story about a Christmas adventure in a red notebook. When he finished the book in mid-December, he slipped it into a children’s picture bookshelf at the Ada Community Library’s Lake Hazel Branch in Boise during a trip with his grandmother, according to The Washington Post.
Dillion later told his mother, Susan Helbig, that he had secretly tucked the book into the library’s shelves. The mother and son returned to the branch two days later to retrieve the notebook but could not find it in the spot Dillion had left it.
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Helbig later called the library to see if anyone had found Dillion’s notebook.
“His parents were worried we would find his book and we would get rid of it,” Alex Hartman, the Lake Hazel library branch manager, told The Guardian. “Which was an unfounded fear because if there’s ever a place a book would be safe, it would be here.”
But Hartman had found Dillon’s notebook and read it to her son, who loved the story. Eventually, Hartman stickered “The Adventures of Dillion Helbig’s Crismis” and placed it in the library’s graphic novels section.
As of Saturday, Jan. 29, there was a 55-person wait list for the book and the library staff has been in talks of creating a digital copy, The Guardian added.
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