My name is Timi Williams … it’s about my encounter with a stranger. Timi’s life suddenly becomes emotionally bankrupt. He had woken up on the third day of his mother’s ‘disappearance’ to an encounter that leads him to conclude his parents have conspired against him by abandoning him for a ‘stranger.’ He feels dejected, and struggles through the reality of the ‘strange’ moment. This book promises a second read.REVIEWS: Having read all the reports and taken note of the Editors’ opinions we can confidently state that your work (Timi and The Stranger) was found to be heart-warming read that easily creates empathy within the reader for the experience of your character… Board of Editors, Austin Macaulay Publishers, London. The protagonist’s discovery of himself in whom he once termed ‘a stranger’ makes the story so natural and intriguing, emotional, engaging and suspense filled … the author proved to be a thorough and meticulous genius in children’s literature Udechukwu IfunanyaTeacher, English Studies, St. Albert the Great College, Onitsha A fascinating insight into the innocent feelings of children over what parents might take as nothing. Every child is as adorable as the other, younger or elder, so deserves maximum care Doris E. Okafor (Mrs.)Teacher, Literature, St. Albert the Great College, Onitsha The unraveled wisdom of contemporary age Anene I. Jideofor, English Language Teachers’ Association of Nigeria (ELTAN) Wow! It’s indeed a fascinating story embodied with suspense which makes it more interesting for children … it exposes the children to know that life is a stage which everyone must embrace Eneh O. C. (Mrs.)Use of English teacher, St. Charles Borromeo College of Nursing, Onitsha Vincent unveils, in a unique way, the jealous in young children when a newborn comes into the family: attention diverted to the newborn. The work shows that children need affection to overcome this feeling of dejection. It’s a sure read Obachie Perpetua (Mrs.) Head, English Language Department, St. Albert the Great College.PREFACEThe very day my wife returned from the hospital with our newborn baby, Ngozi, our other children, Vincent and Victoria (twins then 3 years and 6 weeks old) watched with keen interest how we paid attention to the baby. And Victoria asked: What [who] is this? Vincent followed immediately with Where did you bring it from? And Victoria added: Mum, you better return it to where you got it from. My wife and I laughed because they sounded funny.But the following day when a friend, Peter, came visiting, he asked a ‘funny’ question that made me realize that the questions from my twins were not meant to amuse us but came from the depth of their hearts. And that made us (my wife and I) start addressing the questions with attention.Peter (married with five children) had asked, laughingly, if the twins have asked us who the baby is and where did we get it from. Peter’s question led me to see that there is an emotional struggle for attention in the older children especially the immediate elder sibling of the newborn; and it is a global truth. My research showed that where this immediate elder to the newborn cannot yet ask these questions verbally, he or she asks them by throwing tantrums.Timi and the Stranger came to life as a result of the above encounter. With the reviews that have come in and still coming in, it’s my sincere desire that every child in every nation on the earth be given an opportunity to experience this book in a language she or he best understands. In this light, I call on publishers from different nations to take this work to the ends of the earth.VincentOkechukwuIkedinachi ( a.k.a. Don Vin)Author
