To be fair, the concept of scrapping is mentioned from time to time, but that is just how the stories were. It annoys me to see some of the reasons that people have given to dislike this book, some along the lines of "the stories are too dark". 1 sometimes not appearing for a full book. Though the book says "Thomas the Tank Engine" on it, these stories are not only about him, but also the rest of the Really Useful Engines on the Island of Sodor, with No. His son, Christopher, has written several more afterwards. To be clear, the title "The Complete Collection" refers to the fact that these are all of the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's Railway Series books. But I am proud to own this book containing the first twenty-six volumes of The Railway Series. For a while, I seem to have had a strange idea that the TV series was adapted into the books. I could go on and on about my backstory with Thomas, but I'm afraid that it would be far too much to write. This was the first book I got in relation to Thomas the Tank Engine. It is also one of the most important thing to me that I own. This book is the most important book that I have ever read in my entire life. Strange how as I read the stories I can see Denis reading them along side me. I remember he had a far more spectacular version of this book and I remember being allowed to carefully read it when I was a small boy when we visited them. So like I say when I read the various children books - I still have so much to learn from the classics what ever they are.īut why read this book - well for me it was another connection to my late uncle who to me lived for all things historical and natural history. One thing that did catch me by surprise was that there was such a large array of engines - now again I thought a lot of the engines were creations of the various TV and toy franchises trying to expand and increase their sales of the various characters but no - a very large number of the engines where originals from the various stories. There are a short afterwards which covers of the Rev Awdry along with the two main artists who illustrated (and brought) the island of Sodor and the various engines to life. So on to the book - this is a gloriously grand collection of all of the original stories along with the artwork that brought the various engines to life. I guess they have been retold and referred to so many times that they have filtered through in to my memory and stuck there. This was a lot more fun than I thought it would be and what really surprised me was I knew (sort of) a lot of the stories.
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