The Time Train!: A Minky Monkey story

by Elizabeth Eager

Bobby's Daddy works away! His Mum has just had a new baby and his best friend (aka 'Grandad') has recently gone to heaven. Confused and sad, Bobby is visited by a magical monkey called "Minky", who shows him how to use the awesome 'Time Train'! It's a magical train that helps the time pass quickly before Bobby's Dad comes home, and revisiting his favourite memories! Minky is a very special monkey who wants to show children everywhere that being apart and separated from your loved one doesn't always have to make you sad and angry - it can even be fun and exciting when you use the 'Time Train'!Do you have to spend time apart from someone you love? Hop on board the 'Time Train' and join Bobby and Minky on an adventure to the wonderful world of 'imagination station!' where time passes quickly.This book was written by Elizabeth Eager, a former military wife, to help her children cope with continual deployments and separation from their Dad who had to travel a lot for work, but also to help them through the process of grieving for their much loved Grandad. She has published it in the hope of helping other children dealing with separation, anxiety, divorce or grief and the confusing and conflicting emotions young children often feel and can't express. 10% of proceeds will be donated to charities supporting military children.

33 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2020

About the author

I read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre by the time I was 10 (I couldn't understand most of it!) but it ignited a passion for the imaginary world that books can create. I followed it up with Scarlett Ribbons and a Jackie Collins novel that I cant remember the name of, before progressing onto Mills and Boon and Vladimir Nabakov... eventually in my teens discovering the beauty and erotica of Anais Nin!
This may or may not have coloured my view slightly of what to expect from a real life romance! ;-)

But hold out for your fairytale ladies - I am living mine! <3

I strive to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and the poetry in the everyday. I wear rose tinted glasses and always need a happy ending. I have way too vivid an imagination for someone who is married to the military - there's enough drama, but somehow I always find more!
The books that I read or write need to make me or readers feel good about the world and not disrupt my world view of goodies and baddies, angels and demons, heroes and villains.

I have two children who are the centre of my rapidly spinning world and a hubby who keeps me centred and sane! I also have a cat called Trisha (!) I didn't name her! xxxx