Herbert
The Story Tommy and Mark Wrote Together
A Friendship Written in Pencil... Never Erased.
In the sixth grade, two boys sat down with a pencil and a wild imagination. Together they created a little story about a character named Herbert. Neither of us knew that decades later, those fading pages would become one of my most treasured possessions—and a reminder that the stories we create together can outlive us.
Tommy Kimbrough
Mark Stracener
♪ Listen to “The Adventures of Herbert” ♪
The Original Manuscript
"These are the actual pages we wrote together in sixth grade. More than fifty years later, they're still here—creased, faded, and torn—but every word remains."
The Binder
This old red notebook carried Herbert safely through more than five decades.
The First Page
The adventure begins... exactly as it was written over fifty years ago.
Reader Advisory
The authors were in the sixth grade.
We thought snakes were hilarious, burps deserved to be in literature, and absolutely nothing was too ridiculous to write down.
We make no apologies.
We simply invite you to remember what it was like to be eleven years old.
NOTICE: The following was written by two eleven-year-old boys in 1971.
Neither author had legal counsel, adult supervision, good judgment, or apparently any fear whatsoever of the federal government.
