Recommendations for a train obsessed Toddler

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Hello!

ToddlerScout (aka Toddler/TS) is 2.8 and completely train obsessed. Does anyone have any recommendations of stories about or involving trains? We have the complete original set of Thomas the Tank Engine, which he loves, and a couple of The Little Red Train books. He can "read" all of The Little Red Train books as well as completely recite ("reading" and memory) The Little Red Caboose (and all of his books within the Little Red Trains series fighting for the spot of next favorite).

While I love all of the pre-reading he's doing with these favorite books I am, quite frankly, going slowly mad reading the same books over and over and over up to 20 times a day. He'll occasionally pick up one of the dozens of books we have but train ones grab him the most.

Many thanks!

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best day out for him rare breeds one end ,otters and butterflies the other

There are some Chuggington books too.

Graham greene's "the little train"; Ivor the engine (quite a few of these). Non fiction train books may also be a hit, ds1 has an old ladybird book of British Railways and the dk Ultimate train book Jneither of these are exactly thrilling to read, but they do make a change!) Can you gently persuade him onto other forms of transport eg the muddy waters canal books?
I do remember the feeling of not being able to bear reading the same book again, with ds1 it was Thomas and the Twins!

As a parent to 2 train obsessives (ds is 4, and dd is 2) and a dh who volunteers here embrace it. The dc's love Thomas & chuggington, they are also often found with their noses in dh's proper train books looking for real trains.
They consider a month were we haven't been to either the bluebell railway if we are at home or a visit to grandmas where we don't go here or here a disappointment.
Embrace it and you will soon be able to tell the difference between a p class tank engine and a c class tender engine!!!

But the Little Red Train is brilliant . I guess anything too much can be TOO MUCH!!! By the way DS kept going with the Little Red Train up to about 5.5 so watch out! I actually hid the THomas the Tank engine original books in the end because I couldn't stand them!!! Sorry, not much advice....does your library have anything you can tempt him with?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned 'Terrific Trains' by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker. You can also get a version with a CD so you can listen to it in the car as well. My DS1 who is still train mad at 5 knew it off by heart (as did we - aargh!) when he started Reception. Other train themed books - 'Oi get off my train!', 'Topsy and Tim go on a train'. And yes look for some non-fiction books on trains. We have some great ones in French and German with flaps to lift etc but that prob doesn't help you much!

my daughter was especially obsessed with trains, by 3 to 4 we had done everything, so went on to Fred Dibnah

I do recommend anything Fred Dibnah, there are books, brilliant box sets,

www.freddibnah.co.uk/

I also really recommend as probably one of the best things we ever did with them, The Great Dorset Steam Fair, the biggest in the world, and totally mind blowing for children who have these interests, you can camp there, on the last day at the end they let off all the whistles, more steam whistles at once than even would of been heard in the industrial revolution,

you see children driving massive steam engines, it's such a worthwhile experience,

www.gdsf.co.uk/

daughter now also loves "mighty ships and extreme engineering".

And the Train Goes by William Bee, it's fantastic (as are his other books).

Robert Crowther's Trains pop up book is brilliant, though it is factual rather than fiction.