My Thomas Story Library

My Thomas Story Library is a series of small books for children published by Egmont Publishing in collaboration with HiT Entertainment. Over the course of five years, the company plan to publish a collection of fifty titles, each one devoted individually to a character from the television series. The stories featured in some books are loose adaptations of those that feature in the original Railway Series by the Reverend W. Awdry, whilst others are adapted from the television series.

The books are illustrated using special enhanced graphics by Robin Davies and Jerry Smith. Phil Jacobs, Creative Designs, and Clive Spong have helped out with illustrations, too.

2003

 * Thomas: Thomas and Gordon/Thomas and the Breakdown Train
 * James: Troublesome Trucks/James and the Coaches
 * Donald and Douglas: The Twin Engines
 * Toby: Toby and the Stout Gentleman/Mrs. Kyndley's Christmas
 * Bulgy: Bulgy
 * Elizabeth: Elizabeth the Vintage Lorry
 * Cranky: Cranky Bugs
 * Terence: Thomas, Terence and the Snow
 * Skarloey: Crosspatch/Bucking Bronco
 * Mavis: Mavis/Toby's Tightrope

2004

 * Percy: Percy and the Signal/Percy's Promise
 * Bill and Ben: Heroes
 * Sir Handel: A Bad Day for Sir Handel
 * Oliver: Escape
 * Bulstrode: Bulstrode
 * Gordon: Edward and Gordon/Whistles and Sneezes
 * Edward: Cows/Old Iron
 * Duncan: Passengers and Polish/Gallant Old Engine
 * Salty: Salty's Secret
 * Stepney: Stepney gets Lost

2005

 * Duck: Duck takes Charge/Donald's Duck
 * Henry: Coal
 * Harold: Percy and Harold
 * Peter Sam: Special Funnel
 * Emily: Emily's New Coaches/Emily's New Route
 * Trevor: Saved from Scrap
 * Bertie: Thomas and Bertie
 * Diesel: Thomas and the Evil Diesel
 * Daisy: Daisy/Percy's Predicament/Bull's-Eyes
 * Spencer: Gordon and Spencer/Edward the Great

2006

 * Rheneas: Rheneas and the Roller Coaster
 * Annie and Clarabel: Thomas and the Guard/The Runaway
 * George: Steamroller
 * 'Arry and Bert: Halloween
 * Jack: Jack Jumps In/A Friend in Need
 * Fergus: Bill, Ben and Fergus
 * Mighty Mac: Mighty Mac
 * Rusty: Rusty Saves the Day
 * Molly: Molly's Special Special
 * Harvey: Harvey to the Rescue

2007

 * Caroline: Train Stops Play
 * Arthur: The Spotless Record
 * Murdoch: Peace and Quiet
 * Freddie: Fearless Freddie
 * Neville: Thomas and the New Engine
 * Rocky: Edward Strikes Out
 * Rosie: Thomas and the Birthday Mail
 * Dennis: Thomas' Day Off
 * Alfie: Alfie has Kittens
 * The Fat Controller: Trouble in the Shed

2008

 * BoCo: The Diseasel
 * Jeremy: Thomas and the Jet Plane
 * Whiff: Emily's Rubbish
 * Hector: Hector the Horrid
 * Billy: Don't be Silly, Billy
 * The Snowy Special: Henry's Lucky Day

2009

 * Madge: Wash Behind Your Buffers
 * Hank: Heave Ho Thomas
 * Flora: Tram Trouble
 * Colin: The Party Surprise
 * Stanley: The Great Discovery

2010
When The Fat Controller asks Emily to take Thomas’ passengers one day, slow and steady Emily thinks that she knows best. But soon she is running late and a shortcut lands her into even deeper trouble! Can a Really Useful Engine race to the rescue and save the day?
 * Charlie: Playtime
 * Kevin
 * Hiro: Hero of the Rails
 * Troublesome Trucks: Thomas and the Trucks
 * Victor: Steamy Sodor
 * Haunted Henry
 * The Snowy Surprise: Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure
 * "Thomas to the Rescue" (released for World Book Day)

2011

 * The Spring Surprise: Edited version of Thomas and the Pigs.
 * Thomas The Tank Engine Story Treasury

Personalised books
There is a special edition of the "My Thomas Story Library" books which allows parents, mothers or fathers of Thomas fans to have their child placed in a special story as a character, who has a special birthday trip with Thomas. The book is called "You and the Birthday Surprise". This is the second "My Thomas Story Library" books which allows people to have someone they want placed in a special story as a character, plus a friend of him too.
 * 'You' and the Birthday Surprise
 * 'You' and the Christmas Rescue

Trivia

 * Donald and Douglas are painted blue, as in the Railway Series books.
 * Skarloey and Rheneas have brass domes, as in the Railway Series.
 * In "Bulgy", Duck's coaches Alice and Mirabel appear as regular red and custard express coaches.
 * In "Sir Handel", the Skarloey Railway coaches Agnes, Ruth, Lucy, Jemima and Beatrice appear.
 * In "Oliver", Oliver's autocoach Isabel appears, but not Dulcie; likewise, the Diesel makes a cameo appearance.
 * In "Murdoch", Harvey and Salty come to help Murdoch when he stops due to sheep instead of Toby as Murdoch's fire goes out and has no more steam.
 * In "Neville", 'Arry and Bert actually bump Neville into the trucks, Thomas sees Neville with 'Arry and Bert at the Docks instead of the Timber Yard, Edward isn't involved in the rumour, and Toby hears about 'Arry and Bert being horrible to Neville from Salty instead of Henry.
 * In "Thomas to the Rescue", illustrations from "Emily" and "'Arry and Bert" are used for the story.
 * In "Cranky", Cranky actually tells the Fat Controller that Thomas had moved his trucks onto the line furthest away from him; and it is daylight when Thomas and Percy come to rescue Cranky.
 * In "Stepney", the Fat Controller scolds Stepney's driver for taking on the night-job without his permission.
 * In "Spencer", the writers clearly decided to use the deleted scene of Donald and Douglas from "Edward the Great" as the Scottish Twins are mentioned and shown in the illustrations.
 * In "Colin", Freddie meets both Rusty and Peter Sam at the same time and Thomas brings Mr. Percival back to the Wharf from Mountain Village Station.

Goofs

 * Duck has green wheels in "Annie and Clarabel".
 * Bill and Ben have reversed letters in "Fergus".
 * Monty is referred to as Max in "Jack".
 * Sir Handel has a blue bufferbeam in "Skarloey".
 * James' tender is connected to his valence in "Thomas".
 * Arry and Bert have red bufferbeams in "Stepney" and "Arry and Bert".
 * Thomas has no buffers in one of the last pictures in "Rocky". In the same book, Edward's wheels consistently change arrangement.
 * BoCo is depicted as a CoCo engine in "BoCo"; Daisy is depicted as a CoBo engine in "Daisy".
 * Mighty Mac is depicted as a standard gauge engine in "Mighty Mac".
 * In "Murdoch", Salty is said to have steamed after Harvey says "No need to be rude."
 * In Billy and Whiff's books, Diesel has yellow and black strips on his front.
 * In one of the last pictures of "Emily", Thomas' wheels are the same size as Gordon's driving wheels. In the same book, Edward is depicted with a 2-6-0 wheel arrangement.
 * Peter Sam has his old funnel and his face is smaller in "Duncan".
 * In the last illustration of "Duck", Donald has no tender.
 * The last piece of text in "Bulgy" says that Bulgy liked being a henhouse, but in the Railway Series and TV series he hated being one.
 * In the text of "Thomas to the Rescue", Edward is referred to as Gordon and Emily is referred to as a tank engine.
 * On the front cover of "Spencer", Spencer dosen't have a front coupling hook.
 * Edward's side cab windows are missing their lining on the front cover of "Edward". However, the back covers of every book promoting Edward's book includes the lining.
 * In "Bulstrode", the text mentions that the trucks crash through the buffers, but the illustration shows that they come off the rails at the points.
 * In one illustration of "Oliver", Douglas' tender bufferbeam is black and doesn't have buffers or a coupling hook.
 * Throughout "Hank", Hank's first boiler band is red.