Clearfield County high school student publishes children's book

CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) -- When you're 16 you likely are not thinking about becoming an author but one local high schooler was able to turn an average car ride into a children’s book. 

Isaiah Snyder is a sophomore at Clearfield Area Junior/Senior High School and now he is a published author.

"I was driving on Interstate 80 with my dad and it was raining that day and we were crossing the bridge to enter Clearfield and I saw a rainbow and it just sparked my head. What if a leprechaun worked at a factory and that made rainbows,” Snyder said. 

That idea now lives within the book titled "The Rainbow Factory". 

"The Rainbow Factory" is about a leprechaun who was working in a factory that makes rainbows, and he realizes that one of the light bulbs is burned out, so he has to go and try to replace it. So he goes on to journey to get a light bulb, but each time he fails, it breaks. He then realizes that he just had to turn the light bulb turn on.

It isn't just his words written on the pages but hand-drawn pictures too. Snyder says it took him less than two weeks to complete the book, however publishing was a little lat...