Catching the Book Bandit

About the Book

Catching the Book Bandit is a children’s crime drama that raises questions like “Who did it?” and “What could be done to catch the perpetrator?” Dave, Macey, Jake, and Freddy are four young kids who are best friends. They all live in the same vicinity as one another. Individually different in personality, as expected, the children share two very common traits: they’re inquisitive and curious. The neighborhood the youngsters live in consists of working-class people who are established in their careers and professions, like Dave’s, Jake’s, Macey’s, and Freddy’s parents, and who raised them with strong values and the ability to know right from wrong. Recently, a great wrong had manifested itself in their community in the form of a crime. An unexpected crime, a very unusual crime, which created a stronger bond between the friendship of the four. United and focused on one cause, with the help of local law enforcement, they devised a plan to catch the one who wronged the community and bring him to justice. This book encourages young people to read because there’s always something you can learn contained within the pages. Words and numbers are like food for the brain, connected through sight, sound, and touch. Seeing-impaired or hearing-impaired, no matter the condition, words exist for all. We must take a stand when it comes to education, and that takes many forms. For example, teachers educate students at school, and parents continue that process from the home by helping with homework and social behaviors. All of these are geared toward a positive outlook for your child’s future. I take a stand for education through book formation and the characters express the situations. Through observation and mobilization, they were able to get the job done.

About the Author

My name is John Chichester. I reside in Brooklyn, New York, and I love to write. Writing has been an important part of my life for a long time. In high school, I studied journalism, a subject I loved because it gave me the ability to express my thoughts. When I look at any form of writing—a letter, a story (fiction or nonfiction)—there is one basic element that exists: a starting, a middle, and an ending. This threefold element exists in life and in our daily life as well. For example, you wake up in the morning—that’s the start of the day. The middle of the day is 12:00 p.m. Then there’s the night, dinnertime, time to go to bed—so the day ends. When you hear the saying “Reading is fundamental,” it’s true, because you cannot learn to write without learning how to read first. I love to read. Your imagination is enhanced. It opens your thoughts to new possibilities. Besides seeing and hearing, reading helps us and keeps us informed about the world we live in. Art and music have always been an important part of my life. I love to draw, and I love singing and writing my own songs. I was part of a music group at one time—three of us, it was. But that’s no more because both of my friends have passed on, but I vow to carry on what we have started. A house must be built from the bottom up, not the other way around. I believe if you lived a life where you had nothing, then you worked and achieved something, a stronger foundation will be built when you gather all the tools necessary to ensure a strong foundation. This is about what I love to do and how it relates to life overall.