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Issue Details: First known date: 2003-... 2003- Toby Jones
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  • A time slip series of cricket-themed novels.

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y separately published work icon Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack : It's Not Just a Game - It's Time Travel! Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2003 Z1090492 2003 single work children's fiction children's '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)
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y separately published work icon Toby Jones and the Secret of the Missing Scorecard Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2004 Z1155779 2004 single work children's fiction children's

'If you could travel back in time and see people and places from the past, would you go? Toby Jones lives and breathes cricket. He plays in a local cricket competition, follows the professional players and knows all the stats. But Toby has a secret he can travel back through time to watch famous cricket matches and players. And he can take his friends with him. But it’s not all good news …There are dang/product/toby-jones-secret-missing-scorecard/ers. Toby has seen the strange, hooded figure lurking in the background. What, or who, is this creepy character after? And how desperate is he to get what he wants?

'If you love fantasy or sport, you’ll love reading the Toby Jones books. With cricketing tips by Australian fast bowling legend, Brett Lee.' (Author's abstract)

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y separately published work icon Toby Jones and the Mystery of the Time-Travel Tour Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2005 Z1221584 2005 single work children's fiction children's fantasy 'Toby Jones returns in another exciting story of time travel and cricket. Toby Jones is not your average cricket fan. It’s not his passion for the game that makes him unusual – it’s his ability to travel through time, back to the great matches of the past. When his friend and fellow time traveller Jim Oldfield is left behind – last seen watching Bradman play at Leeds in 1930 – Toby knows he’s the only one who can find Jim. Meanwhile, Phillip Smale, ruthless team manager of the rival Scorpions, is working on a secretive scheme to lure rich cricket-lovers to his Timeless Travel Tours… but there is no guarantee of a return ticket. Can Toby save Jim and also thwart Smale’s perilous plan? Or will the dangers of time travelling lead to disaster?' (Author's abstract)
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y separately published work icon Toby Jones and the Timeless Cricket Match Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2006 23581429 2006 single work children's fiction children's

'It’s not just a game – it’s time travel – and this time it’s back to Lords.

'Toby Jones returns in another exciting story of time travel and cricket. Toby Jones is not your average cricket fan. It’s not his passion for the game that makes him unusual – it’s his ability to travel through time, back to the great matches of the past.

'Just when Toby thought his time-travel adventures were all over, he has to make another journey, and this time it’s going to be dangerous. With the help of his mentor and fellow time traveller Jim Oldfield, Toby must travel to the famous cricket ground Lords in England to visit Father Time so he can save his friend Ally. Ally is fading away since she met herself on a previous trip back through time.

'Now it is truly a race against time to save her.

'But where is the ruthless Phillip Smale? Will Phillip complicate the important task at hand?' (Author's abstract)

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y separately published work icon Toby Jones and the Clash with Father Time Michael Panckridge , Brett Lee , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2007 23581511 2007 single work children's fiction children's

'Toby Jones is not your average cricket fan. It isn’t his passion for the game that makes him unusual – it’s his ability to travel through time, back to the great matches of the past. Toby is playing for Australia in a junior Ashes match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It’s the most important game of his life so far. But things take a dramatic turn when one of a band of sinister soul-snatchers – known as Grubbers – makes a ghostly appearance in the outfield and takes over the body of one of the England players. To make matters worse, Toby discovers that his friend Georgie has gone missing. Toby must return to the Timeless Cricket Match and confront the powerful and evil Father Time. Only by doing so can he save all the former and future Test cricketers doomed to be trapped in the past forever… and the game of cricket itself.

A thrilling conclusion to the bestselling Toby Jones series.' (Author's abstract)

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First known date: 2003-2007
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