Really Useful Engines

by Christopher Awdry

Book Overview

From Christopher Awdry, whose father created Thomas and his friends, come four more classic tales of very helpful steam engines and their adventures on the cozy little Island of Sodor. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375812253
• ISBN13: 9780375812255
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

First Time Charm!

Christopher Awdry's first book is great! Thomas helps the police find the Stationmaster's stolen gardening tropheys, Percy helps a Postman get his van back, Duck sorta helps Henry up a hill, and they have to pull the express while Gordon is ill. Great book! Hope you enjoy it!

Really Reliable and Wonderful

The fifth volume in Random House's reissue of the original Railway Series books, this first collection of stories by Christopher Awdry (son of Thomas originator Reverend W. Awdry) shows Christopher to be the superior writer and storyteller. The younger Awdry's writing has a finesse and his tales are fleshed out with greater details that make this volume more enjoyable for the adult reader who's reading these aloud. Beyond that - and this is valid for the entire series - these printings, with the original paintings and hardcover binding, have a wonderful feel to them, making them the kind of books that you want to have the entire collection in your bookcase, and hopefully pass on to your kids so that they can read to their children as you did with them.

Christopher Awdry's First Book!

This is a great book!In'Stop Thief',The Station Master's House gets robbed!Can Thomas the Tank Engine catch the thieves?In'Mind That Bike',Percy accidently runs over Tom Tipper's Bike.In'Fish', Duck and Henry get stuck in a "fishy" situation.In 'Triple Header',Gordon needs to go to the works,so Percy,Duck,and Thomas have to pull the express together.