Available Formats
Board book
Published: 21st June 2023
Board book
Published: 1st November 2023
Board book
Published: 3rd August 2022
Thomas and Friends: First Words
By (Author) Thomas & Friends
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
1st November 2023
Australia
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Educational: First / native language
Board book
14
Width 170mm, Height 170mm
276g
Learn first words with Thomas and his friends!
Filled with lots of useful words and fun pictures, this book is perfect for little learners.
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.