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Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines (Pictureback(R)) | 
 enlarge | Author: W. Rev Awdry
Creator: Richard Courtney
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $3.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 25980
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 24
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8 x 7.7 x 0.2
ISBN: 0375831193
EAN: 9780375831195
ASIN: 0375831193
Publication Date: August 23, 2005
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Product Description
Thomas and the Really Useful Engines are working hard getting the new airport ready for the grand opening. Then a terrible storm slows them down, and soon it is clear that all the engines are going to have to work together. The steamies and the diesels have never gotten along very well, but Lady appears in Thomas’ dream and tells him it will be all right. But can they count on help from the biggest diesel of them all–Diesel 10?
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Paint Car Thomas November 13, 2007
My son likes this book because Thomas gets splattered with paint. This book goes well with Take Along Thomas Paint Car. If you are looking for a nice gift, buy both.
Great Thomas book. May 15, 2006
This is definitely one of the best of the Thomas books. It is by the original author and has a message about working together. The steamies and the diesels are fighting, and no work gets done, so Thomas calls a meeting and they all work together. Even Diesel 10 chips in. Enjoy reading it 10 million times. . .
Trains, Trains, and More Trains - Calling All Engines! December 16, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love these little Thomas books. For a minimal price you can add to your child's library and foster a love of reading.
In this Thomas and Friends story, the Steamies and the Diesels learn that they need to get along if they are going to be `really useful engines'.
Summer has come to Sodor along with an ambitious plan of construction. Pleased with the completion of the new Sodor suspension bridge, Sir Topham Hatt announces that he needs all the engines to help build an airport to bring in the all important tourist trade.
Everything starts out well, but soon the Steamies and the Diesels are at cross purposes. As the author writes, "[T]he diesels bumped Thomas and biffed Percy." And [s]oon the diesels and the Steamies were biffing and banging and being bashed all over the island."
And if that was not bad enough a bad hurricane sweeps over the island causing great damage so that not only do they need to keep working on the airport, but they need to rebuild and clean up at other locations.
Considering all the biffing and bashing that doesn't seem likely and all seems lost until Thomas has a dream in which he sees Lady working side by side with Rusty (a diesel). Lady tells him in the dream that "[W]e always finish our jobs when we work together. This makes up Thomas' mind and he approaches Mavis (one of the nice diesels, like Salty) with the idea of putting aside *all* of the arguments so that they can *all* be really useful engines.
Word gets round and soon everyone is working hard and pulling together.
Five Stars. Good read-aloud. This book is particularly popular in our home because of the many different engines that are pictured.
A sample of text follows:
The next morning when Thomas woke up, he had an idea.
First he went straight to see Mavis. Mavis was a kind diesel
engine, and Thomas knew she would listen. He told Mavis that
he wanted the steam engines and the diesels to work together.
Mavis agreed... it was the only way to get the airport open in time.
"Let's have a big meeting with al of the engines at the coaling
Stop tomorrow," Thomas puffed.
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