Advantages: Great little story for Thomas Fans
Disadvantages: None

...Thomas, Percy and the Squeak is a lovely little book based on the Thomas TV series. The cover of the book has a green banner at the top with the title in Yellow lettering and a picture of Thomas and Percy below. The back of the book has a green border and a yellow inside which features smaller pictures of other books available to buy in this collection. THE STORY The story begins by telling how the engines on the Island love the summer as the Fat Controller sometimes holds concerts. The engines are excited as a famous singer is coming to Sodor to sing at one of the concerts. James, Gordon and Thomas all decided that they might be chosen to collect the singer. Gordon comes along and decides that the Fat Controller will not pick Percy as he is very dirty. Percy announces that he is dirty because he works so hard. The next... Read review

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Advantages: Keeps the kids entertained.
Disadvantages: The noises to get a bit anoying

...appologies to Sir Topham Hat for not being able to work and Sir Topham Hat says that it is alright and that everyone gets sick or injured once in a while. 3 - Thomas Races Percy. Thomas and Percy find that they both have no work one day and are told that they can do whatever they wish. thomas suggests a race, they decide to race to the seaside. During the race when Thomas is in the lead he sees a cow walk out onto the tracks infront of him. Thomas comes to a stop and Percy overtakes him on the next line. ercy wins the race but Thomas knows that he has done the right thing in stopping as Safety comes first. 4 - James' New Paint When Thomas pulls into the train yard he smells new paint and asks Henry what the painters were working on. Henry tells Thomas that James is getting a new coat of paint. When Thomas sees how nice and new James looks... Read review

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Advantages: Likeable little characters, Simple stories
Disadvantages: Only really appeals to children 6 and under...

...the latest in a long series of Thomas videos and DVDs. It includes eight 'All New Stories', featuring Thomas, Percy, James, Edward, Toby, Duck, Rheneas & Skarloey and the Fat Controller in 'action-packed brave adventures.' There are no special features of note. The DVD jacket, which features James and Thomas, is yellow and red in colour making it easily distinguishable from the rest of the Thomas range. The eight stories included are as follows: A FRIEND IN NEED: In which Thomas is rescued by his friend Jack, a digger, after an accident under a bridge. Jack damages his arms in the incident, but is later sent away to be mended… SCAREDY ENGINES: In which Edward tells scary ghost stories to Thomas, Percy and Duck on Halloween. Percy is frightened, and naughty Thomas teases him about it, only to find the shoe on the other foot when he is left... Read review

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Advantages: Hours of fun.
Disadvantages: Difficult to watch what you want to!

...INTRODUCTION ******************* Thomas and his friends star in the first of five DVD`s,comprising of 26 episodes all previously shown on T.V but put together for one compilation. Thomas and his friends (introducing Gordon, Henry, Edward, James, Percy and many more) live and work on the island of Sodor, surrounded by sea it boasts a timber yard, flour mill ,coal mine and of course the docks!. Over 2 hours of adventures will have the children entertained (and many adults!). Find out what happens to Thomas when he gets above his station and cheeks Gordon the big blue engine, how Henry`s green paint is spoilt not by the rain but from the soot in a tunnel he refused to come out of, and James getting... Read review

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Advantages: good book
Disadvantages: ?

...Percy and Harold Thomas the tank engine and his friends are characters in familiar children’s storybooks. They have been around for many a year they are based on the railway series by rev E Awdry. I was in a charity shop and spotted Percy and Harold a first Thomas book this one is a small board book about 5 inches square 6 pages long. I thought it would be a good introduction to the world of Thomas for my grandson his dad enjoys reading him books. This book is about Percy and Harold Percy is a green train with the familiar smiley face on the front of the engine Harold is a white helicopter. Robin Davis draws the illustrations. The first page shows a clear bright illustration of Percy on a railway track, green fields a hedge a blue sky. Percy is talking to Harold the helicopter who warns Percy it is going to rain... Read review

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Advantages: hours of fun for little ones
Disadvantages: none

...Thomas And Percy Motorised Megasketcher My little boy loves Thomas the Tank Engine; he has just turned five and still draws on the walls and settee. So all pens, pencils, crayons and paints are banned from the house in case my little budding interior designer gets a hold of one of them and draws all over the house again. Most children go usually stop drawing on the walls and settees when they reach the ago of two or three, but Josh still continues to do it despite the numerous amounts of other drawing related toys he has. I caught him about to draw on the wall three weeks ago and asked him why he was always doing it and his reply was "Mummy you're supposed to draw on paper, there's loads of paper on the wall that's not been drawn on yet!" Kids say the funniest things at times. I tried my hardest to keep my laugh... Read review

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Advantages: A good programme for the kids
Disadvantages: none

...a number on the side of the train. Anyone remember Thomas's number? Thats right, Number 1. But he was not alone. Thomas pulled 2 carriages. They had names too. Annie and Clarabel. The other engines in Thomas's stories all had their own personalitles. Firstly was Percy. Percy was as cheeky and naughty as Thomas was good. He is a small Saddle Engine and Green in Colour. Used for shunting around the yard. Henry. A large friendly Green engine, Henry enjoys his work. When he first arrived at the station, he was not in the good books of the fat controller, Sir Topham Hatt. Gordon. The Real Misery guts of the team. His features are even sharp and pointed. Just like his attitude. Feels he is above everyone else but normally gets in a mess and needs the smaller dirtier engines to help him out. Then there is James... Read review

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Advantages: great fun toys to collect
Disadvantages: can be expensive

...is happening with you. There are stickers too for your child to either use in the puzzle pages or separately if they want. The final part is a figure and piece of track which are made with sturdy plastic. The figures have working wheels and the track fits together jigsaw style with straight, curved and even a turntable. The 1st issue comes with the magazine called Thomas at the Station and we get our first 2 pieces of track along with Thomas himself as well as the sticker sheet. Issue 2 comes with Edward and track and the magazine is Thomas on the Farm and again has stickers included. Issue 3 has Henry and track and the magazine is Thomas and his friends visit the Harbour. There is again the sticker sheet. As this series goes on you get lots of other figures, not only engines such as Percy and Gordon but also Harold the Helicopter... Read review

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Advantages: Lots of activities to help children learn, mouse, 5 volume settings
Disadvantages: The screen could do with being bigger and in colour

.... Beginning Sounds Let's learn beginning letter sounds with Mavis! Press a letter button to hear its beginning sound identified. 4. Hidden Letter Harold will show you a picture with a hidden letter on it. Find the letter and press the matching letter on the keyboard. 5. Odd One Out Percy wants you to watch the sheds closely. Four letters will appear in the sheds. Find the letter that is in a different letter case and type the letter on the keyboard or select it with the mouse. 6. Letter Match Emily will show you a letter. Then you have to match the letter to its small or capital letter below. You can type this letter on the keyboard or choose the correct letter with the mouse. 7. Letter Order Thomas wants us to learn the alphabet. Find the letter that goes in the middle of two letters shown... Read review

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Advantages: Great stories, good engines, educational experience
Disadvantages: The new stories aren't as good

...to James, although he is painted blue instead. He seems to be one of the more unlucky engines out of the lot as he often has a lot of problems such as break downs. He has the most hillarious facial expressions of the engines, only the 'startled' look on the face of Percy can beat any of his. Percy - The little green engine that is much the same size as Thomas. He tends to shunt trucks around, he hasn't been given a branch line by the Fat Controller. He tends to get into an awful lot of funny situations, primarily down to him to crashing into things and also things like treacle getting splattered all over him. Toby - A rather bizarre brown engine who started his work on the line by pulling trucks and goods trains. Like Thomas, he was given a little line of his own and a carriage called Henrietta to help him operate it. He is never involved... Read review

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