This book is part of a book series called Random House Picturebacks .

This book was published 2010 by Random House Books for Young Readers .

The book will be compiled by the Puffin team in association with celebrity supporters of the charity. Reverend Wilbert Awry created Thomas the Tank Engine when his son Christopher became ill with measles. 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.