Stop, Train, Stop! A Thomas the Tank Engine Story

I didn’t pay attention to the dimensions but it fits into our toddler’s tiny hands. He can “read” it while he’s in his car seat.

I love these Dr. Seuss brand Thomas books, and (more importantly) so does my two-year old. He's a Thomas fan through and through. Unlike the Golden Books (which are nice enough), this book and its cousin, GO TRAIN GO tap into writing conventions that will train your young reader to recognize patterns. It's not a Pulitzer, to be sure, but its use of parallel structure and appropriate repetition elevates your frequent reading of Thomas from nice stories that are grounded with a moral center to something a bit more. Be aware, however, that this Board Book lacks the meat of the more traditional children's book. As a result, a bit of the narrative is loss. If you have the ability, I'd recommend going with the non-board book. If not, however, your young reader will still delight in reading this and its sturdiness enables more individual reading with less accidents to the pages.

I didn't read the description of this book well enough and I thought it was the unabridged longer version. This is actually a smaller board book. That didn't matter much to my son, who was 18 months old when I purchased this. He'll listen to any Thomas story with rapt attention, and being a board book meant he couldn't damage as easily as a paper book. I also bought Go Train Go, and both have become a favorite of his. He often brings us one of the books to read to him. My only complaint is that because it is very small, it tends to get lost among his larger board books.

This is a fine, tiny picture book, but our son doesn't like it as much as the others in the series. They changed illustrators from Tommy Stubbs, so it just doesn't look the same as Go Train Go or some of the others. A minor issue, but it's not picked often in our house as a result.

My 16 mo old grandson loves to have this read over and over- a little modification to simpler/shorter story because he's so excited to get through the book! But he loves it and will sit and "read" it by himself as well. But I'm sure he'll grow into reading all words on page.

Cute book. This is our second one. The first one was so well loved my son kept saying "clean up!" (it had worn down by the 3rd child), so I finally bought a new one!

My 2 year old loves Thomas the Tank Engine and enjoyed this story. It was long enough to hold his attention.

Good book

Great little books for kids. The material of this board book holds up really well to the destructive strength of a toddler!

Toot toot

3 - 4歳以上向きでしょうね。話しには起承転結があり、親が読んで聞かせるのに最適。子供が自然に覚える英語、という感じではありません。トーマスシリーズには珍しく、日本の文庫本のような縦長サイズですが、紙は十分厚く、愛らしい本です、お勧め