Alfie (Story Library Book)

For other uses, see Alf (disambiguation).

Alfie
Overview
Author	Abi Grant (original story)
Illustrator(s)	Robin Davies Jerry Smith
Publisher(s)	Egmont Books
Series	My Thomas Story Library
Published	2007/2011/2015
Release Guide
← Previous	Dennis
Next →	The Fat Controller

Alfie, re-titled Alfie the Excavator in 2011, A Really Useful Engine in 2015 and Alfie is Not a Small Fry in China, is the forty-ninth book in the My Thomas Story Library series.

Plot

Alfie loves demolition but does not like it when the others tease him about his size. He soon finds out that being small is not so bad when he saves a family of kittens from a collapsing building.

Characters

• Thomas
• Jack
• Alfie
• Max and Monty
• Kelly
• Ned
• Jenny Packard
• The Foreman
• Oliver the Excavator (does not speak)

Location

• The Brickworks

Trivia

• This book is based on the Jack and the Sodor Construction Company episode, Alfie Has Kittens.
• This is the only My Thomas Story Library to be based on a Jack and the Sodor Construction Company episode.

Goofs

• On the 2015 cover, Alfie is referred to as an engine instead of an excavator.
• Max and Monty have the same bumper-bar designs.
• Kelly is depicted as light-blue, but he is really a darker shade of blue.

Gallery

2011 cover

Chinese cover

2015 cover