The Story of Thomas the Tank Engine

A special board book edition of the original, classic story introducing Thomas the Tank Engine!

This is a beautifully-illustrated story about Thomas the little blue Tank Engine, who worked really hard on The Fat Controller's railway. Every day he puffed around Sodor shunting trucks and pulling freight. But what he dreamed about was having his very own branch line …

Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for 75 years. He ranks alongside other beloved characters such as Paddington Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage.

Other board books about Thomas the Tank Engine include:

Thomas & Friends: Go, Thomas, Go! (shaped board book with wheels) 9781405296809
Thomas & Friends: Happy Birthday, Thomas! 9781405297240
Thomas & Friends: Ten Little Engines 9781405293303
Thomas & Friends: Pocket Library 9781405293006
Thomas & Friends: Noisy Sound Book 9781405295208
Thomas & Friends: Hide & Seek 9781405293129

Top 100 Children’s Book – Junior Magazine, 2019

The Thomas the Tank engines stories were created by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, who was born in Hampshire in 1911. He grew up close to the railway and was convinced that the steam engines all had different personalities. He used to imagine conversations between them. Later when he was grown up and his son Christopher became ill with measles, Wilbert told stories Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends to entertain him. Christopher asked for more and more stories and Wilbert began writing them down. The first of the Railway Series books was published in 1945, and Awdry wrote 26 Railway books in total before his son, Christopher, took over the series. There have since been multiple, hugely popular, Thomas the Tank Engine TV series and films.

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