Thomas & Friends: The 12 Engines of Christmas

Description

Join Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends for a Christmas singalong! Children will love counting the Christmas items and singing the festive lyrics based on the much-loved 12 Days of Christmas song. Refreshed and updated to feature the new Steam Team, it's packed with festive fun and frolics. Thomas & Friends is a great way to pass on the tradition of Thomas to early readers. Children aged 2 and up will love meeting classic characters such as Percy, James, Gordon, and Toby down on The Fat Controller's railway.

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.

Sing along with Thomas and his friends in this very bright, colourful and appealing board book. Using the cut outs of each of the characters your little one can easily turn each page and together you can sing these alternative lyrics to The 12 Days of Christmas. This is a great book for learning to count as your child can look for the items on each page. * www.booksforboysweb.wordpress.com, 2018 *