Toby Jones and the Mystery of the Time-Travel Tour
Author: Michael Panckridge
Author: Brett Lee
Book 3 in the Toby Jones series
Pages: 220
Published: 2005
Age: 8+
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?
About the Toby Jones Series
Books in series order
- 1.Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack(2003)
- 2.Toby Jones and the Secret of the Missing Scorecard(2004)
- 3.Toby Jones and the Mystery of the Time-Travel Tour(2005)
- 4.Toby Jones and the Timeless Cricket Match(2006)
- 5.Toby Jones and the Clash with Father Time(2008)
Reading age: 7+ years
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.
This unique gift means that Toby and his cricket-team friends – 12-year-old boys and girls who love the game on and off the field – have a time portal that opens them to adventure centred on their beloved game of cricket.
This series is written in conjunction with cricket legend, Brett Lee.