A Special Edition for Fans of the Classic Illustrated Stories
Reverend Wilbert Awdry was born in Hampshire in 1911. He grew up
close to the railway and was convinced that the steam engines
all had different personalities. He used to imagine
conversations between them. Later when he was grown up and his
son Christopher became ill with measles, Wilbert invented the
Thomas stories to entertain him. Christopher kept asking for
more stories and Wilbert began writing them. The first of the
railway series was published in 1945. Awdry wrote 26 Railway books
in total before Christopher took over the series.
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