Encyclopedia Brown is a boy that is has a dad that is a policeman and he somehow knows who did some kind of a trouble by just looking at the problem and a just a little hint. He solved a problem when a guy that won the egg spinning contest and took all of the kid’s things and he solved a case when a guy said the tent is his tent and also he solved a problem when a guy said the knife he has is a knife from a fighter that was fithing in the World War II. the characters are Encyclopedia Brown, parents and his friends and the baby and the baby parents. The connection to the book is I also had a time when I had to know how took my pen then I had a little hint I took out their notebook and checked if they used my pen.