Time Switch: The Birthday Bandit & the Lost Birthday Time Loop Trap
The Story: Every year the Birthday Bandit (one of the troublemakers from the Realm of Time) visits the human world to steal birthdays from unsuspecting children who he often tricks with fake trades as he promises to grant each child a wish in exchange for the birthday celebration or make the actual day itself into a time loop trap. However, when the Birthday Bandit hijacks then steals a little girl's birthday and ties her birthday up in a dark time loop and her ten year old brother finds out, her brother and his three friends embark on a hunt to find the Birthday Bandit and the missing birthday (birthday being who is being held captive in the Birthday Bandit’s mine shafts) to try and get her birthday back and to free her from the time loop. However, finding an unearthly being is not easy when you don't have a map and so they must face some challenges to secure a map of the Birthday Bandit's hideout and then make the perilous journey to find him across the Dead Woods where he is transforming stolen birthdays into dark time segments and tricky time loop traps. Written by Jill Thrussell