Where on a roll with children’s books so here another great children’s book, Thomas The Tank Engine.

The books where published as a series called The Railway Series. The Railway is located on a fictional island called Sodor.

Currently there are 41 books in the Railway Series which were first published in 1945, 26 of the books where wrote by Rev. W. Awdry who is the mostly commonly associated name with the series and Tomas the Tank Engine.

The majority of the books in the Railway Series are based on real life situations and they are then turned in to a children’s book.

Thomas is the bases for the series of books and the story line often features Tomas the Blue tank engine, but nearly all styles off Steam engines are represented from the aptly named Diesel who is a Diesel shunter to Bill and Ben who are Saddle tanks, other popular engines are Gordon, Henry, Percy, James and Duck who represents the GWR livery.

In the 1980’s The series was turned into a TV series and was narrated by Ringo Starr from The Beatles pop band of the 1960’s and 1970’s

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is another book that I can remember reading at an early age.

The book really captured my imagination as a child and i would imagine that it would still do so now. As a child it was very easy to believe that this could happen to you. The story was based around a little boy from a poor family who lives with his parents and both set of grandparents. There is a big marvelous chocolate factory in the town where Charlie the little boy lives and they decide to run a competition for 5 people to go and visit inside the chocolate factory and meet Willy Wonka the creator of all these marvelous confectionaries. This is a once in a lifetime trip as no one is ever seen entering or leaving the chocolate factory.

There have been 2 film adaptations of the book, but these have been called Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory which was released in 1971 and stared gene wilder which nearly everyone has seen.

And the modern Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 film which was produced by Tim Burton which help create a dark side to the film and starred Johnny Depp.