Railway Series Boxed Set

By W. Awdry and Rev. W. Awdry

Created for his son by a father who loved trains, the 6 classic storybooks each feature a different engine friend: Thomas, Gordon, Percy, James, Henry, and Toby. All presented in an elegant slipcase. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375827439
• ISBN13: 9780375827433
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 3.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 3 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

The reverend's original stories, well packaged

My three year old loves all things Thomas and he enjoys these stories as well. As the original stories they are less sugar-coated than the later picture books. Most focus on a train who misbehaves then gets his comeuppance. The illustrations are beautiful. The physical packaging is quite nice. Both the box and the books have stood up to pummeling by my son. The stories included are: * Thomas and Gordon, Thomas' Train, Thomas and the Trucks, Thomas and the Breakdown Train * Coal, The Flying Ripper, Gordon's Whistle, Percy and the Trousers, Henry's Sneeze * Toby and the Stout Gentleman, Thomas in Trouble, Dirty Objects, Mrs. Kyndley's Christmas * James and the Top-Hat, James and the Boot-lace, Troublesome Trucks, James and the Express * Off the Rails, Leaves, Down the Mine, Paint Pots and Queens * Percy and the Signal, Duck Takes Charge, Percy and Harold, Percy's Promise

Amazing Railroad Adventures

These are the books I grew up with-small books that contained wonderful pictures. I read them to my own children, and they in turn are reading them to their children. Rev. Audry's pictures have a charm lost in the present day Thomas The Train tv series.These stories benefit from Rev. Audry's original illustrations. These stories are gentle and amusing .In a sometimes cold world , they invite you in to the gentler, kinder, and infinitely warmer Earth celebrated in these stories . Thomas the Tank Engine, Gordon and many others live on in these stories. My father was a railroad buff- so I suppose it was natural that I should have enjoyed these stories so much. I think that anyone with similar interests would enjoy them for their children or grandchildren. I think that the number of children who go on railroad adventures everywhere would find these books an added enrichment.

Wonderful little books

My 2-1/2 year old loves these books. We read at least one of them just about every day. They are very sturdy, and have survived repeated hurls across the room when I'm ready to stop reading, but he's not. Most of the stories are featured in the "Thomas: The Early Years" DVD series with Ringo Starr and some of the DVDs with George Carlin, and so are very familiar. I highly recommend them to little Thomas fans!

Excellent choice for kids who love Thomas

My 3 year old son loves all the books in this set! The books are hard covered and quite sturdy and the size is very good for kids to hold. The stories in all the books are not too long and fun to read. Although some of the words in the stories are less commonly used words even for adult, they didn't cause my son to lose interest in the stories. Highly recommended to parents if your kids love Thomas & Friends.

Six hardback books with the classic Thomas stories

Wow these are nice little hardback books and we are really enjoying them. There are six books in the collection and they are about Toby (my personal favorite), Henry, Percy, Gordon, James and, of course, Thomas the Tank Engine. If you are looking at this collection you, no doubt, are familiar with Rev. Awdry's stories so I will only add that the pictures in this series are nice and the books are a good size for 3 year old hands and the paper seems pretty strong so far, so that none of the pages are either wrinkled yet or torn. A nice way to bridge away from the television series or the tapes into something that is more "useful"...reading! We give it 6 thumbs up. Mom, dd, and ds.