
Toby Jones and the Clash with Father Time
Author: Michael Panckridge
Author: Brett Lee
Book 5 in the Toby Jones series
Pages: 208
Published: 2008
Age: 8+
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
A thrilling conclusion to the bestselling Toby Jones series.
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.
