Books with author Jonathan Cake

In this tenth and exciting new book in the new Countdown Mysteries™ series, we meet up again with the three young detectives who together use their combined detective skills, and high-tech devices, to solve mysteries and crimes in their town of Anchor Bay. When a young boy witnesses a bungled convenience store robbery, and a dramatic shootout between his father and the police, he has no option but to flee the scene and go into hiding. The question is, can he stay hidden forever? While a master thief attempts to steal a prototype of a high-tech skateboard, the children discover someone is cheating on a TV game show, and suddenly there is a triple mystery to solve. Can the members of D.I.G. come together once again and use their collective detective skills to save the day… and all before the countdown clock runs out? (Suitable for 7 – 12-year-olds.)

Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition? Pipers at the Gates of Dawn is a unique ensemble bringing together Jonathan Cott’s encounters and conversations with some of the most celebrated children’s authors of the twentieth century. “Children’s literature,” he states, “brings us back to experiencing our earliest and deepest feelings and truths. It is our link to the past and a path to the future. And in it we find ourselves.” Cott’s firm belief is that children’s literature can impart wisdom and delight to everyone, and he believes that the masterpieces of children’s literature are simply masterpieces of literature in miniature, conveyors of wisdom and wonder.Pipers at the Gates of Dawn consists of Cott’s essay-interviews with Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Astrid Lindgren, Chinua Achebe, P. L.Travers, and with Iona and Peter Opie, the great scholars of the lore, games, and language of schoolchildren. He explores with the authors themselves the lives of their created characters and the character of their own lives. All share with Cott an impassioned sense of the richness and complexity of childhood, and of the enduring importance of children’s literature in the lives of all of us.

In this sixth and exciting new book in the new Countdown Mysteries™ series, we meet up again with the three young detectives who together use their combined detective skills, and high-tech devices, to solve mysteries and crimes in their town of Anchor Bay. There have been sightings of a strange creature lurking in the local Wakoya River for decades. So, when Roly, Nine and Charlie think they have spotted the mythical creature, they set out to prove the existence of the Beast of Anchor Bay. Then, a villainous group of terrorists threaten to destroy the Aw Hydroelectric Plant, and with it the town's electricity supply. If the terrorists succeed, Anchor Bay will be plunged into total darkness. Can the members of D.I.G. come together once again and use their collective detective skills to find the creature, stop the terrorists, and save the day… and all before the countdown clock runs out! (Suitable for 7 – 12-year-olds.)

Now available as a separate book to Welcome To Being Human (All-In-One Edition).Imagine a story written for adults, but told through 3 separate children's stories. One bedtime story for parents to read to a child. One story for a child learning to read. One story for children to read to parents. This is just what is included in the Children's Edition of Welcome to Being Human - the highly acclaimed book that has gripped adults young and old alike. How many times have you heard, "Life doesn't come with an instruction book?" But what if it did? And what if you wrote that instruction book before arriving on Earth so that one day, in your human form, you would find it and be able to look upon your life with an entirely different perspective? Ever since humans arrived on Earth, they have - for better or worse - bounced around the planet without any sense of direction. It would be almost comical if it wasn't reality. I mean, how many times have you asked a question and heard an answer like, "I don't know why, but that is what it says?" Or even better... "That's just the way it is." After all, the greatest minds on planet Earth have only a small understanding of something much, much greater than can be explained through science, math, and history. This is why Welcome to Being Human will find the rhythm to your heart. For the first time, one book answers the great questions about life that have gone unanswered for so long! It is a story humorously written by you, for you, to help you remember all that's been forgotten... an instruction book to being human. Welcome to being human!

In this eleventh and exciting new book in the new Countdown Mysteries™ series, we meet up again with the three young detectives who together use their combined detective skills, and high-tech devices, to solve mysteries and crimes in their town of Anchor Bay. On the very day that Roly, Nine and Charlie launch their own detective agency, and open their new D.I.G. Headquarters, cats and dogs begin to go missing from homes all over town, and the three junior detectives are hired to find the pilfered pets. A rash of bank robberies plagues Anchor Bay, leaving Chief Perkins with more than the robberies to worry about. Suddenly, our three detectives have not one, nor two, but three mysteries to solve. Can the members of D.I.G. come together once again and use their collective detective skills to save the day… and all before the countdown clock runs out? (Suitable for 7 – 12-year-olds.)

In this fourth and exciting new book in the new Countdown Mysteries™ series, we meet up again with the three young detectives who together use their combined detective skills, and high-tech devices, to solve mysteries and crimes in their town of Anchor Bay. Roly, Nine and Charlie meet Walter, a retired whale watcher who introduces them to a pod of whales living in the shallow waters off Anchor Bay. Spotting a strange ship, Walter and the children suspect that poachers may be about to steal the baby whales away from their mothers. Suddenly, the three children are thrown into an exciting but dangerous world of animal poaching. When Walter mysteriously disappears from his boat, can the members of D.I.G. work together to find their friend, save the whales, and foil the plans of the pirates… and all before the countdown clock runs out!

In this eighth and exciting new book in the new Countdown Mysteries™ series, we meet up again with the three young detectives who together use their combined detective skills, and high-tech devices, to solve mysteries and crimes in their town of Anchor Bay. When a great Samurai Chief is assassinated in his sleep, no one can determine the identity of the deadly assassin, or even how he or she was able to get in and out untraced? It’s an alarmingly similar situation back in Anchor Bay, when several homes are burgled, and not even the three young detectives can fathom how the thief is getting in and out of the burgled houses. Can the members of D.I.G. work together to identify the rogue assassin and, in doing so, bring the Anchor Bay burglar to justice… and all before the countdown clock runs out! (Suitable for 7 – 12-year-olds.)

In this seventh and exciting new book in the new Countdown Mysteries™ series, we catch up again with the three young detectives who together use their combined detective skills, and high-tech devices, to solve mysteries and crimes in their town of Anchor Bay. When an elderly neighbour falls foul of a despicable flower thief, Roly, Nine and Charlie step in to help. In what is undoubtedly their deadliest detective adventure to date, the three children finally get to unmask the mysterious motorcyclist living just across the street. As always, it isn’t long before the three crack detectives must try to unravel a long-unsolved mystery that has baffled all others for almost a decade. Can the members of D.I.G. work together to help their elderly neighbour, solve their most baffling mystery yet, and save the day… and all before the countdown clock runs out! (Suitable for 7 – 12-year-olds.)

In this third and exciting new book in the new Countdown Mysteries™ series, we catch up again with the three young detectives who together use their combined detective skills, and high-tech devices, to solve mysteries and crimes in their town of Anchor Bay. A desperate thief hits the Anchor Bay Art Gallery, apparently stealing nothing at all, and leaving the gallery staff and police totally baffled. Then their new friend’s precious musical instrument is mysteriously stolen from the concert hall just days before an important concert, leaving Roly, Nine and Charlie with no idea that one situation is inextricably connected to the other in some way. Can the members of D.I.G. come together again and use their combined detective skills to save the day… and all before the countdown clock runs out?