Thomas the Tank Engine's European Word Book, retitled as Thomas' Big Book of Words for American prints, is a vocabulary picture book in which the reader can learn about words and phrases related to things you see on railways.
Synopsis
It's fun speaking French and German with Thomas. In his European Word Book you can find out hundreds of useful words and phrases, form numbers and colours to animals, food and the days of the week.
Meet Thomas's friends, Ben and Polly, too, and help them look for their missing bucket and spade as they travel home from the beach.
Characters
- Thomas
- Edward
- Henry
- Gordon
- James (European version only)
- Percy
- Toby
- Duck (European version only)
- Donald and Douglas (European version only)
- Annie and Clarabel
- Henrietta (European version only)
- Bertie
- Terence (European version only)
- Harold
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Polly and Ben
Trivia
- The original European version had the characters and objects labelled in three languages; English, French and German, while the American and Japanese versions only have the words labelled in English.
- Illustrations that would later appear in Learn with Thomas are inserted between the main story illustrations, the American version omits them.
Goofs
- Harold is missing his name.
- Gordon's dome is brass in one illustration.
- Edward is shown but is referred to as Thomas in one illustration.
- The American cover misspells "Thomas'" with an extra s.
Gallery
U.S. cover
Japanese cover
