Dave's Timely Adventures: The Thieves of Time

by Benjamin Kuttner

Return to a world of science, magic, and mystery... Ever since Dave Round became a Guardian of Time, his life has changed in unimaginable ways. Now he is caught in a war between the Guardians of Time and the Thieves Of Time, who roam through time stealing creativity for their evil master, Ayin Horeh. To fight back, Dave uses all his future tech — his Illusograph , to transform into whatever he vividly imagines, his Watch , to time travel, his Whisperers , to understand any language, and his Ahem , to speak in any language. Outside of being a Guardian, Dave also goes to school with its usual bullies and the girl he has a crush on. However, school is not the safe place it used to be with other shapeshifting time travelers appearing. Dave must learn to face these new threats as well as save the creativity of Galileo, Michael Faraday, and Marie Curie. Although this time, he has a new gadget and finds help in the most unexpected of places.

206 pages, Paperback

Published December 26, 2019

About the author

Benjamin (or Ben) lives in a little town an hour from Auckland, New Zealand with his wife and two daughters. As a child he lived feral in the canopy of Jurassic era trees with spectacular bird life. Well not quite, but he did spend a good deal of time climbing trees in the native forest on his parents’ property (where his daughters are now busy constructing a tree house). Sometimes in tandem with climbing, from a young age, Ben also developed a love of reading voraciously such wonderful writers as: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. LeGuin, Margaret Mahy (who kindly wrote back to his fan mail), Roald Dahl, and many others.
Ben also has a deep affinity with science fiction, his grandfather was a chemical engineer and also a World War Two veteran and installed in Ben a fascination with science and history. When Ben was four years old, his father (who is also a fan of all the above) took him to watch the three original Star Wars films in back to back screenings over a day. At the end of Return of the Jedi, his dad asked whether his little son was tired and Ben burst into tears, asking, “Is that all there is?”
So this adoration of science fiction, being an outdoor kid, and history coalesced into the Dave’s Timely Adventures series, which now is bedtime reading (in its various draft forms) to Ben’s daughters who are two of his most active fans, critics, and muses.