Thomas & Friends: The Great Rescue: A Story About Teamwork (Really Useful Stories)

When Whiskers the kitten is lost on Sodor, Thomas asks his friends Flynn the Fire Engine and Harold the Helicopter to help find him. Can they work together as a team and save Whiskers?

The Really Useful Stories series is designed to support toddlers’ development and explore key preschool themes including sharing, fear of the dark, making friends and teamwork. Each book includes suggestions for grown-ups about ways of using the story to help their child talk about new experiences.

Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for over 70 years. 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 ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage.

A brand-new Thomas story series, designed to support toddlers’ development and first experiences Over 200 million Thomas & Friends books have been sold worldwide Thomas & Friends, the hugely-popular CGI animated series, airs on Channel Five’s Milkshake daily at 7.20am Classic Thomas & Friends episodes are also shown daily on Cartoonito Thomas & Friends is the No 1 Pre-school Vehicle The global brand campaign messaging for Thomas is ‘Set Friendship in Motion’ Egmont is the number 1 publisher in the character space (Bookscan volume YTD 2017)