Thomas & Friends: My First Thomas Clock Book

What’s the time, Thomas? Learn to tell the time with fun clicking clock hands!

Read the story all about Thomas and his friends and turn the hands on the clock face to tell the time as Thomas does all his Really Useful jobs. Peep, peep! It’s time to go!

What’s the time, Thomas? Learn to tell the time with fun clicking clock hands!

Read the story all about Thomas and his friends and turn the hands on the clock face to tell the time as Thomas does all his Really Useful jobs. Peep, peep! It’s time to go!

This simple but effective novelty book is designed to help children aged 2 to 5 years old to learn to tell the time through following Thomas’ busy day. The hands on the clock make a delightful “clicking… noise when turned, perfect for improving motor skills for toddlers.

Thomas & Friends is a great way to pass on the tradition of Thomas to early readers. Children aged 2 and up will love meeting classic characters such as Percy, James, Gordon, and Toby down on The Fat Controller’s Railway.

Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for 75 years. He ranks alongside other beloved character 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.

• Helps young readers learn to tell the time by following a busy day in the life of Thomas
• Beautiful novelty book, with a clock with moving hands that “tick” when turned
• Thomas was the 7th biggest pre-school character in the book market in 2019 (Bookscan)
• Thomas celebrates his 75th anniversary in 2020
• 500+ episodes and 13 movies to date! Thomas also has the highest ranking and rating on Milkshake in 2 years with 1.3 million reach
• 1 toy engine is sold every second somewhere in the world