Akron Public Library

Loco for locomotives? Get your ticket ready - here is everything you need to know about finding, keeping and training your very own pet train. Finding advice on caring for a dog, a cat, a fish, or even a dinosaur is easy. But what if somebody's taste in pets runs to the more mechanical kind? What about those who like cogs and gears more than feathers and fur? People who prefer the call of a train whistle to the squeal of a guinea pig? Or maybe dream...

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.

As assorted passengers comment on their train ride, and the train itself goes "Clickerty click, clickerty clack," the station parrot is carefully listening to every sound.

The train rolls along slowly at first, slowly enough to count the cars, to name their colors, and identify their functions, until it starts to pick up speed.

Blue train Thomas works all day, and Green train Percy works all night.

Thomas the tank engine and Bertie the bus agree to race to see who is faster.

There's Trouble with a capital "T" lurking among the familiar faces as a train makes its way through the villages along its route.

At certain times of the day, Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends do specific things.

Although he is not very big, la Pequeña Locomotora Azul agrees to try to pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain.

One quiet spring morning, a young boy uses his magic pencil to draw an old-fashioned passenger train and then finds himself among an odd assortment of passengers in the middle of a train robbery.