This 8-year-old's book is a hit at his library. He offers advice for aspiring authors

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A boy finds himself magically transported to the North Pole. He's chased by a moose into a time portal that transports him back to 1621, where he joins the first Thanksgiving in colonial America.

Just when things can't get any crazier ... the boy is eaten by a giant turkey.

The latest Amazon bestseller? Nope — but it is the hottest commodity of the Lake Hazel branch of the Ada Community Library in Boise, Idaho. And it's the brainchild of 8-year-old Dillon Helbig, a second-grader who loves to read, draw and write.

Dillon has been flexing his creative muscles in storybook form since he was about 6. But recently he felt that the audience for his fiction shouldn't be limited to just mom and dad.