Railway Rhymes

by R. Schuyler Hooke, Richard Courtney (Illustrator)

Overview

A fun collection of more than 30 original poems featuring 35 different friends from the Island of Sodor. Travel all over the island, at all times of year in this wonderful first book of poems with the Thomas touch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375831751
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/23/2005
Series:	Lap Library Series
Pages:	36
Product dimensions:	7.54(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.38(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

R. Schuyler Hooke is an author of children’s literature, including books for the Thomas & Friends and Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs series.

Richard Courtney is a published illustrator known for his colorful work in the children’s book series Thomas & Friends.

Editorial Reviews

Thomas the Tank and his railway friends are the brightly-colored toys so popular with toddlers. Each car or vehicle has a distinct personality and many youngsters know them all by name. This sturdy, thick, padded-cover book is ideal as a gift book for the young fan of Thomas and his cleverly named friends, each of whom is honored in rhyme. The first poem, appropriately enough, is about Thomas who is a little tank engine and there are three rhymes about Gordon, "big and strong" who is "pulling the express along." Some of the poems are short, some long, but they all capture the distinct personality of the vehicle celebrated whether it is Cranky, Salty, Bertie, Emily, Toby or Harold the Helicopter. There is an underlying sweetness in the stories about Thomas and that is evident in these rhymes as well. The illustrations are classic Thomas the Tank as the book is based upon "The Railway" series by the Reverend W. Awdry. 2005, Random House, Ages 3 to 6.
—Carolyn Mott Ford

Children's Literature