With two exciting Thomas & Friends stories, loads of full-color photographs, and more than 50 train stickers, this deluxe paperback storybook offers train-loving boys and girls ages 3 to 7 a truckload of reading fun. In Express Coming Through!, Thomas the Tank Engine is asked to pull a train that's way too heavy for him! What now? In Go, Go, Thomas!, Thomas tries to appear in every photo of a book about Sodor's railway, causing all sorts of trouble. Uh-oh!

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In the early 1940s, a loving father crafted a small blue wooden engine for his son, Christopher. The stories that this father, Reverend W. Awdry, made up to accompany this wonderful toy were first published in 1945. He continued to create new adventures and characters until 1972, when he retired from writing. Reverend Awdry died in 1997 at the age of 85. Established in July 2013 in a merger between Penguin and Random House, Penguin Random House, with nearly 250 independent imprints and brands on five continents, more than 15,000 new titles published each year, and close to 800 million print, audio, and eBooks sold annually, is the world's leading trade book publisher. Like its predecessor companies, Penguin Random House is committed to publishing adult and children's fiction and nonfiction print editions and is a pioneer in digital publishing. Its publishing lists include more than 60 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world's most widely read authors.