Best Birthday Ever! (Thomas & Friends)

A storybook celebrating Thomas the Tank Engines birthday--plus stickers a party game and a poster! Train-loving boys and girls ages 3 to 7 can celebrate Thomas the Tank Engines best birthday ever with this Thomas & Friends storybook featuring stickers a poster and a party game! In the early 1940s a loving father crafted a small blue wooden train engine for his son Christopher. The stories that this father the Reverend W Awdry made up to accompany the wonderful toy were first published in 1945 and became the basis for the Railway Series a collection of books about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends--and the rest is history. Thomas & Friends(TM) are now a big extended family of engines and others on the Island of Sodor. They appear not only in books but also in television shows and movies and as a wide variety of beautifully made toys. The adventures of Thomas and his friends which are always ultimately about friendship have delighted generations of train-loving boys and girls for more than 70 years and will continue to do so for generations to come.