Thomas & Friends The Big Book Of Engines

Meet all of the engines in this Thomas Friends board book with a padded cover Trainloving boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love to discover fascinating facts about Thomas Nia Bertie Harold and all their favorite Thomas Friends characters in this sturdy board book with padded cover. In the early 1940s a loving father crafted a small blue wooden train engine for his son Christopher. The stories that this father the Reverend W Awdry made up to accompany the wonderful toy were first published in 1945 and became the basis for the Railway Series a collection of books about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friendsand the rest is history. Thomas FriendsTM are now a big extended family of engines and others on the Island of Sodor. They appear not only in books but also in television shows and movies and as a wide variety of beautifully made toys. The adventures of Thomas and his friends which are always ultimately about friendship have delighted generations of trainloving boys and girls for more than 70 years and will continue to do so for generations to come.