Mark leads a small, lonely life: a call center job, a cramped apartment, and a secret identity he keeps carefully hidden. Then, at a weekend flea market, a strange old woman sells him an ornate antique crib for the change in his pockets — and everything changes.

When Mark falls asleep in the crib dressed as he truly is, he wakes not in his apartment but somewhere in time. A Civil War battlefield. A Philadelphia printing office. Dallas, 1963. Each journey brings new wonders, new dangers, and a growing suspicion that the crib isn’t taking him somewhere at random — it’s taking him somewhere necessary.

The trail leads unexpectedly to the year 2118, to a world transformed: hunger and borders consigned to history, humanity spread across the stars, and Little identity openly embraced as simply one way of being human. There, in the gardens of the Royal Palace, Mark meets a young princess in a very thick diaper — and begins to understand that the mysterious old woman who sold him the crib may have known exactly what she was doing.

The Time Traveler’s Crib is a warm, inventive adventure about second chances, found family, and the future that becomes possible when the world finally makes room for everyone to be exactly who they are.