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Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection

10 best books like Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection (Wilbert Awdry): Kipper, Miffy, Lavender's Blue, The Elephant and the Bad Baby, Mr. Gumpy's Outing, The Baby's Catalogue, Tickle, Tickle, Handa's Surprise: Read and Share, The Complete Brambly Hedge, Chester

Kipper
AuthorMick Inkpen
ISBN0340565640
As The Guardian so rightly points out ‘The charmingly comical Inkpen, as always, hits the spot’. The first from the collection of Kipper books, it describes Kipper’s struggle to get comfortable in his doggy basket. He tries a number of amusing options such as a gardening pot, only to find it incredibly...
Miffy
AuthorDick Bruna
ISBN1592260004
This is an extremely strange book. Maybe my Dutch is even worse than I imagine, but the story appears to be roughly the following. I translate into a more familiar idiom:

The Gospel According to Dick Bruna

1. And it came to pass in those days that there were two rabbits, and they did live...
Lavender's Blue
AuthorKathleen Lines
ISBN0192762818
This is a book of nursery rhymes for small children. This is the sort of book that is just not fun to sit and read. It's fun to open it, read one nursery rhyme, maybe two, and close it again. Additionally, you can tell that they really tried to include the best of the old nursery rhymes, however, after reading...
The Elephant and the Bad Baby
AuthorElfrida Vipont
ISBN0140500480
The Elephant and the Bad Baby is the classic story from Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs.

The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride and they go 'rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta down the road.' They help themselves to ice creams, pies, buns, crisps, biscuits, lollipops and apples, and the shopkeepers...
Mr. Gumpy's Outing
AuthorJohn Burningham
ISBN0805013156
Mr. Gumpy's Outing is a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. In England, illustrator John Burningham, with Mr. Gumpy's Outing, became the first artist ever to win England's Kate Greenaway Medal twice.

Mr. Gumpy lives by a river....
The Baby's Catalogue
AuthorJanet Ahlberg
ISBN0140503854
This paperback edition of the bestselling picture book The Baby's Catalogue by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!, is filled with easily recognizable objects - perfect for your baby or toddler!

Mums and Dads, breakfasts and bedtimes,...
Tickle, Tickle
AuthorHelen Oxenbury
ISBN0689819862
Synopsis : A simple board book featuring lumbering, cutie-pie babies at play.
Review : This board book was initially a bit of a challenge for me to really jump into until I began to appreciate it's subtle charms. Having a limited number of pages (4 total) it took a minute for it to "click" in my brain....
Handa's Surprise: Read and Share
AuthorEileen Browne
ISBN0763608637
Handa carries seven delicious fruits to her friend Akeyo as a surprise But thanks to some hungry animals she meets along the way it's Handa who's in for a surprise! --cover

Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children...
The Complete Brambly Hedge
AuthorJill Barklem
ISBN0001983679
Brambly Hedge is my ideal world. The way the mice live is completely natural, which is how I think life ought to be. They appreciate and use everything that grows around them. Theirs is a loving, caring society, but the mice are not just serious and worthy. They have FUN! The much-loved Brambly Hedge mice...
Chester
AuthorSyd Hoff
ISBN0064440958
Chester is a mustang. He would prefer to not be a wild horse though, as he wants to be with people and be taken care of, so when the cowboys come he doesn't run away. Then the cowboys think there must be something wrong with him, so they don't take him home and he journeys into town by himself, eventually finding...
Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble At the Yard Sale
AuthorWilliam Kotzwinkle
ISBN0142406260
Walter's family is holding a yard sale, but there are few customers. Walter, fartingcontentedly near Father, wonders why. When a man offers ten dollars for Walter, Father readily agrees. Walter wonders why. Walter is sad to leave his family behind, but relieved to discover that his new owner is a clown....
The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
AuthorEdward Lear
ISBN0142002275
The absurd and fanciful verses of Edward Lear-from "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" to "The Jumblies," from "The Scroobious Pip" to countless limericks-have enchanted generations of readers, children and adults alike. This delightful collection, the most comprehensive ever compiled of his work, presents...
Smokey
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395349249
Yay for Bill Peet! While I didn’t like this one as much as Katy the Caboose, my son kept wanting me to read it. Smokey is an old engine who is a bit worn down. After overhearing some other engines talk about how will be retired to the junk yard, he decides to go on an adventure. He is chased by Native Americans...
The Nativity
AuthorJulie Vivas
ISBN0152060855
This is my favorite nativity picture book. The text is taken from the KJ Bible and the illustrations are a treat. The tattered wings and combat boots on the angels are a fun interpretation. Pregnant Mary is portrayed more realistically in this cartoon style than in more traditional renderings. Joseph...
Good Night, Alfie Atkins
AuthorGunilla Bergström
ISBN9129661544
One of the two best goodnight stories for small kids that I know. (The other one is Astrid Lindgren's Jag vill inte gå och lägga mig!). Alfons runs his pushover dad ragged with a stream of excuses about why he can't possibly go to sleep yet.

This is another book that my four-year-old nephew Samuel...
Choo Choo
AuthorVirginia Lee Burton
ISBN0395479428
First sentence: Once upon a time there was a little engine. Her name was CHOO CHOO. She was a beautiful little engine. All black and shiny.

Premise/plot: Choo Choo was originally published in 1937. The original illustrations by Virginia Lee Burton have been colorized by Lauren Pettapiece....
The Willows and Beyond
AuthorWilliam Horwood
ISBN0312244975
The River Bank friends are getting older, and begin to pass the torch to the younger generation. Badger has his long-lost Grandson, Toad has adopted a distant toad cousin from France as his ward, and Mole has his Nephew to carry on the family traditions. Now Rat hears from an old friend from long ago, the...
Spot's First Walk
AuthorEric Hill
ISBN0142400858
In this adventure book, there is a yellow brown spot puppy name Spot. His mom gave him permission to walk on his own but along the journey spot comes to some places that he will find some surprises. This is an easy word and colorful book to have beginner readers to experience a book. It’s a fun book because...
I Love You the Purplest: (I Love Baby Books, Mother's Love Book, Baby Books about Loving Life)
AuthorBarbara M. Joosse
ISBN0811807185
Early in the evening two young brothers and their mama finish supper in the sturdy red cabin and set out to fish. While digging for worms, rowing the boat and pulling in fish, each brother asks his mama which one is the best at each task and, as they are being tucked into bed, which one she loves the best.
Barbara...
Rainbow Garden
AuthorPatricia St. John
ISBN0802465781
When Elaine leaves her home in London to stay with the Owen family in Wales, she feels miserable and left out. It's only the little secret garden that she finds at the end of the rainbow that makes staying there seem worthwhile. And then something happens that changes everything.

From Patricia...
The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0451135814
Great questions have always been raised by literature. Moby Dick asks, "Doesn't anyone ever get seasick?" The Odyssey asks, "Doesn't anyone ever get seasick?" The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror asks: "Why doesn't everyone get food poisoning? How do they survive so many greasy snacks?" "Is...
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