Thomas & Friends: Chasing Rainbows Thomas & Friends 9780008534097

Join Thomas and friends for a fun-filled journey in this All Engines Go picture book!

Thomas and Kana spot a rainbow and decide to find out where it leads, eager to find the prize that's always at a rainbow's end. But, as they chug along, the rainbow keeps moving. What will they discover along the way?

Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for over 75 years. He ranks alongside other beloved characters such as Paddington Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage.

The Thomas the Tank engines stories were created by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, who 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 told stories Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends to entertain him. Christopher asked for more and more stories and Wilbert began writing them down. The first of the Railway Series books was published in 1945, and Awdry wrote 26 Railway books in total before his son, Christopher, took over the series. There have since been multiple, hugely popular, Thomas the Tank Engine TV series and films.