Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection (The Railway Series) | W. Rev Awdry

Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection (The Railway Series) | W. Rev Awdry | Amazing illustrations!

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Thomas the Tank En...

	Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection (The Railway Series) W. Rev Awdry Random House Books for Young Readers, 2005 - 508 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

great Thomas collection

My son is a large Thomas fan. he first knew Thomas just from the trains,then he saw the show. Since he loves to read I wanted to combine 2 of his favorite things. This book did just that. It's a nice hardcover edition with enough Thomas stories to keep anyone entertained for a long time. There are nice pictures and an attached bookmark for him to keep track of his place. Highly recommend

Amazing illustrations!

I purchased this hardbound book for my four-year-old son. This book contains all of the Thomas the Tank Engine stories that were around when I was a child. Each story is how I remember it and the illustrations are truly stunning. Since my son loves watching Thomas on TV and playing with the trains, this was a no-brainer to purchase this book.

You will spend hours reading these great stories to your child. Enjoy!

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Sharp Looking Book

My daughter has loved Thomas since she was about a year old (she's 3 now) and this was a great present because A) She LOVES anything Thomas, B) She wants to read this book all the time and C) It seems to have sparked a love for books.

The stories are short and plentiful, and there's info on the Rev. Awdry's life and how he came up with the idea for Thomas... Interesting even to a parent that has had WAY to much Thomas in the past 2 years.

Also, you can't beat the price...

Months' worth of bedtime stories

We ordered this entire Thomas Collection through an Amazon retailer. We got a great price ($15 less than other places we've seen) and the book was mint. My son loves the stories, of course, and the book is a comprehensive collection of every Thomas story and character. We have had it a few months and still haven't read every story in there. It is sturdy and will last for years. We are very satisfied with this purchase. It is somewhat bulky and heavy, however, so not good for traveling or rides in the car, or for very little ones.

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Fell a little short for us

I fear being one of the few to not be crazy over this book, but I have to admit that this book is far from being my top pick from our son's "library."

The stories themselves are great - we'd have no Thomas the Tank Engine without them, after all - and the illustrations are good as well. However, I feel like there is a pretty big text:picture ratio such that this book is not as engrossing to a young child, even a Thomas devotee, as one might expect. This is less and less of a problem as my child gets older, but when we first started to read this book - somewhere between 2 and 2 1/2 - my son would rapidly lose interest in the stories, look away from the book, squirm to get off my lap, etc. Now that he is just a week shy of 3, it seems he has grown into this somewhat, but I still have a problem with the book itself, physically speaking.

This is a BIG book.

I like to read to my son sitting in the glider, with him sitting in my lap. This lets him see the pictures and become familiar with the words as I read them. It is rather akward and uncomfortable for me to hold this particular book in this particular fashion, due to its size and weight. I have to either hold it up, which gets tiring on the wrists and forearms very quickly, or I have to rest it in my son's lap, which makes him tell me to get it off (to such a small person, it probably feels like it is crushing him). I feel like this book is more suited to sitting next to your child's bed and reading aloud, every so often turning the book to show the pictures, but I prefer to hold my child in my lap and will probably do so for a good while yet.

We have since gotten a few of the thin, square, soft-cover "picture back" Thomas books and these seem to work a lot better for us. They are not the "original" stories (at least, the ones we have aren't) but they are still entertaining and feature all of the same beloved characters (and them some!) The drawings are nice and there seem to be more illustrations per section of text. Plus, they are a lot easier to hold at the same time you are holding your child, so story time can be relaxing and enjoyable. I suggest starting with those, and moving on to this book as your child gets older.

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