Riley Holladay is eight years old. He lives with his parents and younger brother in the small town of Holladay, Tennessee. His school has two hundred kindergarten through eighth grade students. His family and many of his extended family live on the Holladay farm, which has been in his family since the 1800s. Riley has a busy schedule. He plays baseball and basketball and is very involved with scouting. Collecting is fun for Riley. Collecting and researching pocket knives is his latest project. Riley loves to learn and try new things. He began dictating stories soon after he learned to talk. Computers and digital cameras have made his illustrating even more interesting. He published his first book when he was in kindergarten.