Description

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Toot Toot Packed full of fun and games, it's the Thomas & Friends Annual 2024

The Thomas & Friends Annual 2024 is a great gift for all train and transport-loving kids. It's colourful and really accessible to young fans, being packed full of appealing images from the All Engines Go TV Show. It has four great stories to enjoy plus a range of activities to keep children entertained and help them learn key early concepts including colouring, counting, simple letter and line tracing, opposites, spot the differences, pattern matching, join the dots, mazes, identifying weather types and different sizes and numbers of items, all with their favourite characters, so kids learn whilst they're having fun. Thomas and his friends also help young children learn about recycling, friendship and being helpful and kind to others.

It includes four great all-action stories:
Hide and Surprise
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks
Biggest Adventure Club
Overnight Stop

Look out for other great Thomas & Friends storybooks and board books available in bookshops, supermarkets, toy shops and online now.

Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for over 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.

About the Author

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The All Engines Go TV show is inspired by The Thomas the Tank engines stories 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. Later when he was grown up and his son Christopher became ill with measles, Wilbert told stories about Thomas 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.