Thomas & Friends: My First Railway Library: James the Splendid Red Engine
Published on 28. August 2014
Book
Board book
16 pages
978-1-4052-7506-4 (ISBN)
Description
The perfect first introduction to the splendid red engine - James! Meet Sodor's number 5 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 board book for Thomas fans.
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.
With a young rhyming text and bright colourful pages this is the perfect first board book for Thomas fans.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 1 to 5 years
Product notice
Picture book
Dimensions
Height: 170 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4052-7506-4 (9781405275064)
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Person
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.