Guinness alert: Five-year-old is world’s youngest person (female) to publish a book | Books and Literature News,The Indian Express
Titled 'The Lost Cat', Bella’s book tells the tale of Snowy, a cat who gets lost after venturing outside alone at night
Guinness World Records has announced its youngest publisher who is all of five years and 211 days. Bella J Dark from Weymouth, UK has become the world’s youngest person to publish a book (female). Her book The Lost Cat tells the tale of Snowy, a cat who gets lost after venturing outside alone at night.
The book was published on January 31, 2022 by Ginger Fyre Press and has since sold over 1,000 copies.
Interestingly, Bella has broken the record of Dorothy Straight, born on May 25, 1958, who was just six years old when her book How the World Began was published by Pantheon Books in August 1964, reported the Guinness site.
Bella told the records site she got the idea of the book from one of her drawings. “It started off as a picture. My daddy said I could make a book and a story came from the picture.”
Her mother, 27-year-old Chelsie Syme, told Guinness that Bella has always had a great imagination and has been writing short stories “from as young as three”.
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