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Thomas' Big Storybook
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Is it age appropriate?
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Not age appropriate for kids under 0, age appropriate for kids over 4; suggested age 4. -
Is it any good?
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Common Sense says
Collected adventures full of lessons and products.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 4 and Up
The good stuff
What to watch out for
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Violence & scariness:
What Parents Need to Know
About Thomas' Big Storybook
Parents need to know that nothing really objectionable as far as sex or violence is presented in these stories, which are more lessons than well-developed narratives. Some of the lessons are heavy-handed. The trains don't always speak to each other in an admirable way, and it's a shame that there aren't more female characters. This series also quite visibly promotes Thomas the Train products.
Read our full review by Patricia Tauzer
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the lessons Thomas and his fellow trains learn, the arguments they have, and the tricks they play on one another. They can also talk about the types of trains and parts of locomotives, as well as the kinds of jobs people do on trains. Kids and parents will learn quite a bit of train vocabulary, such as "couplers," "turntables," and "buffers." Families might want to visit a railroad museum, ride on a real train, or start building a model train collection.
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