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Is part of Toby Jones Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , 2003- series - author children's fiction (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel!
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'The first in a series of time-slip books that take the reader back to famous cricket matches of the past. Toby Jones and his classmates go to the MCG archives on a school excursion and there they meet the old and wise caretaker at the library, Jim Oldfield. Jim is amazed when he realises that Toby has the gift – Toby can see numbers and words whirl on the pages of old Wisdens, which means that he has the potential to travel back in time to cricket matches. With Jim’s assistance Toby and some of his friends are transported back to past matches including the 1999 World Cup semi-final between Australia and South Africa in England. The game is described from the boys’ points of view and the novel contains three dimensions throughout: the exciting story of the famous cricket event; the characters’ own cricketing successes and failures; and the time travel dramas and dilemmas, including the developing relationship between the boys and Old Jim.' (Author's abstract)

Notes

  • Book one in the Toby Jones series.
  • A time slip novel.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2003 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: xii, 194p.p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0207199825 (pbk.)
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Toby Jones : Hat Trick Michael Panckridge , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 2008 Z1667133 2008 selected work children's fiction children's Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 2008

Works about this Work

Untitled John Nolan , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 48 no. 1 2004; (p. 11)

— Review of Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel! Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 19 no. 1 2004; (p. 38)

— Review of Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel! Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , 2003 single work children's fiction
Two Ways to Spin a Yarn Gideon Haigh , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 December 2003; (p. 14)

— Review of Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel! Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , 2003 single work children's fiction ; The Fourth Test John Drake , 2003 single work novel
Two Ways to Spin a Yarn Gideon Haigh , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 December 2003; (p. 14)

— Review of Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel! Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , 2003 single work children's fiction ; The Fourth Test John Drake , 2003 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 19 no. 1 2004; (p. 38)

— Review of Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel! Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled John Nolan , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 48 no. 1 2004; (p. 11)

— Review of Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel! Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , 2003 single work children's fiction
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1999
  • ca. 2003
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