Gordon is very proud of the fact that he's the fastest engine on the Island of Sodor. But one day he has an accident and his boiler runs dry so he has to slow down ... This latest Thomas Story Time title publishes alongside four other new titles: Noisy Stafford, The Lost Puff, Kevin Meets Cranky and Scruff Gets Clean. A brand new addition to the award-winning series.

 

This book features in the following series: Thomas Stories Time, Thomas Storytime .

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2014 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Reverend Wilbert Awdry 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 invented the Thomas stories to entertain him. Christopher kept asking for more stories and Wilbert began writing them. The first of the railway series was published in 1945. Awdry wrote 26 Railway books in total before Christopher took over the series.