Newell is actually an employee of Goodman, CEO of PeopleFun, a mobile game development company in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and wanted to do something fun for him for Christmas.
"Obviously, it was almost 50 years ago and (the book) has been lost to time, but I was wanting to pay the late fee or replacement cost for the book as a joke and giving him a confirmation receipt for Christmas," Newell said in a message to the library.
Goodman checked out the book, "Look Out for Pirates," when he was a first grader at Corte Madera's Neil Cummins Elementary School.