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

Dillon Helbig's handwritten tale of a Christmas star, the first Thanksgiving and the north pole has proved a surprise hit

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.