“Robbie Raccoon and Blackbear the Pirate’s Golden Treasure,” written by David Doyon of Moultonborough, can’t seem to stay on the library shelf. It’s constantly being competitively checked out and used in book reports.

Doyon’s niece and book illustrator, Valerie Doyon, heard from her son’s friend, who was pumped to share he was next in line to check the book out from the Rockport Public Library in Massachusetts.

One kid even dressed as Robbie Raccoon for Halloween, something David never expected.

“It makes me feel good that kids like it,” he said in a phone interview while on a cruise in the Mediterranean. “It will be an option for kids to read other than the big ones.”

Thousands of children’s book authors across the nation create triple the number of pages of literary works, which is a

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