Fred Hembree
Customer Description: My dad is turning 60 at the end of November. When my brother (Robert) and I (Carolyn) were young kids in the 1990s, he used to write short stories about us having adventures and solving mysteries in our home town of Darlington, SC. He called us "the gang" and would sometimes have our friends or cousins appear in the stories too. I don't have any of the old stories, but I would like to get something drawn up in the same spirit of those for his birthday. The story should be kept fairly light in tone Basic Story ( feel free to take some artistic license) My dad took us to the local library a lot. I'd like the mystery to center around that. Perhaps... The Gang is enjoying an afternoon at the library when they overhear a librarian talking about strange occurrences for the last few days. Each morning the librarians come to work, to find several books that have somehow fallen off their shelves all over the library. One of the librarians even mentions that they thought they saw some strange, wizard looking figure lounging in a beanbag chair out of the corner of her eye for a split second, but blames it on not having had her morning coffee yet. The staff concludes that the shelving needs to be looked at or that some odd draft must have knocked the books off. However, the Gang knows when there is a mystery to solve. They come up with a plan to sneak off and hide in the library until it closes with their trusty pet, Rocky, to see what is causing the books to fall. To their surprise, they discover characters coming out of the books after they fall. The kids spend some time having fun with the characters before sneaking back home before mom and dad wake up. The main characters will be me, my brother, and our pet Rocky (he doesn't need to talk, just be a trusty companion). There are pics attached. I included a photo of my parents and the outside of the library in case you want to use them.