Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends®

Based on The Railway Series by The Reverend W Awdry

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Go, train, go!: a Thomas the Tank Engine story / illustrated by Tommy Stubbs. — 1st ed.

p. cm. “Thomas the Tank Engine & friends.”

Based on The railway series by the Rev. W. Awdry.

“Beginner books.”

“A Britt Allcroft Company production.”

SUMMARY: Easy-to-read, lyrical text tells how cautious Thomas gives a ride to a judge who is in a big hurry to get to a train show.

eISBN: 978-0-375-98607-9

[1. Railroads—Trains—Fiction.] I. Stubbs, Tommy, ill. II. Awdry, W.

PZ7.A9613Gn 2005        [E]—dc22        2004020062

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CAT IN THE HAT LOGO ® and © Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. 1957, renewed 1986.

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Here comes the judge

in her big red hat.

She has come to see the train show.

Who will take the judge to the train show?

Thomas will!

Thomas will go.

Thomas will take the judge to the show.

“Hurry, Thomas! Take me to the show.

Take me there fast. Go, train, go!”

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,

up, up the hill,

Thomas the Tank Engine

goes faster than fast.

Screech! go the brakes.

Thomas goes so slow.

Slow,

slow,

slower

than slow he goes.

“Hurry, Thomas! Why do you go so slow?

Take me to the train show. Go, train, go!”

But Thomas cannot go.

Thomas sees a goat.

The goat is on the track.

Peep! Peep! goes Thomas.

Baaaa! The goat jumps back.

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,

down, down the hill,

Thomas the Tank Engine

goes faster than fast.

Screech! go the brakes.

Thomas goes so slow.

Slow,

slow,

slower

than slow he goes.

“Hurry, Thomas! Why do you go so slow?

Take me to the train show. Go, train, go!”

The tunnel is so dark.

Slow, slow, slow

he goes

into the dark,

dark,

dark

tunnel …

… and out the other side!

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,

over a bridge.

He was going so fast.

He was going so fast,

the judge lost her hat!

Screech! go the brakes.

Thomas goes slow.

Slow,

slow,

slow

he goes.

“Hurry, Thomas!

We’re running late, you know.

Take me to the train show.

Go, train, go!”

But Thomas must go slow.

There is a cow on the track.

Moo! Moo! goes the cow.

Peep! Peep! goes Thomas.

The cow moves back.

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,

Thomas the Tank Engine

moves faster than fast!

Screech! go the brakes.

Thomas goes slow.

Slow,

slow,

slow

he goes.

“Don’t stop, Thomas. Go, train, go!

Don’t stop now. I’m late for the show!”

But Thomas must go slow.

There are logs on the track.

The crane engine clears the logs.

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,

around the logs goes Thomas

faster than fast.

There is mud up ahead!

The judge wants to go slow.

“Slow, little engine.

Slow, slow, slow.

Watch out for the mud!

Whoa, train, whoa!”

But Thomas cannot go slow.

Thomas goes faster than fast.

Into the mud …

Splish! Splash!

Thomas goes fast.

Past a town,

fast, fast.

Past a dog,

faster still.

Fast at last!

Nothing can stop him,

nothing at all.

No goat.

No dark.

No cow.

No log.

No crane.

No mud.

No town.

No dog.

This is the fastest

that Thomas can go!

Screech! go the brakes.

“Good job, Thomas!

We made it here at last!

You are a little engine,

but you go so fast!”

Here comes the judge!

The train show begins.

There are red trains and blue trains

and old trains and new trains.

And a little blue engine covered in mud.

What will the judge say?

“I like all the trains. You all are such fun.

But the muddy little blue train

is my favorite one.”

Christmas in Wellsworth

Easter in Harwick

Halloween in Anopha

James and the Red Balloon

Misty Island Rescue

The Special Delivery

Steam Engine Stories

Stuck in the Mud*

Thomas and the Shooting Star

Thomas’ Christmas Delivery

Thomas-saurus Rex

Track Stars!

Trouble in the Tunnel*

*A STEP INTO READING® leveled reader

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