The perfect first introduction to everyone's favourite engine – Thomas! Meet Sodor's number 1 engine and read about his jobs, his adventures and his friends.
With a young rhyming text and bright colourful pages this is the perfect first Thomas book.
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.
This is Book 4 in the My First Railway Library Series. See all My First Railway Library books here.
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Reverend Wilbert Awdry 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 invented the Thomas stories to entertain him. Christopher kept asking
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