THOMAS FRIEND DUCK likes to be Really Useful and Right on Time. One day, some Troublesome Trucks start pushing and they will not stop, and a station is just ahead! Duck works himself into a lather trying to brake in time, but ends up crashing into the stations barber shop. From the Trade Paperback edition.

 

This book is part of a book series called Step Into Reading-Level 1-Library .

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Random House Books for Young Readers .

Reverend Wilbert Awry created Thomas the Tank Engine when his son Christopher became ill with measles. Christopher kept asking for more stories and Wilbert began writing them. The first of the railway series was published in 1945. Awdry wrote 26 Railway books in total before Christopher took over the series.