A Crack in the Track by Rev. W. Awdry

A Crack in the Track Reviews

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  LaDonna

  Who does not like Thomas the Tank? Unlike me, he does not age a bit.
  
  Like most Thomas the Tank books, A Crack in the Track is a cute and simple story that has a cute and simple message to follow. There is some rhyming, but it is not consistent. Thomas will bring a smile to any child's face.
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  Neyda

  read this for my niece
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  Xavier Cameron

  Way too stressful for anyone to be reading
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  Lucy

  The current favorite.
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  Crystal

  3 year old son loved this. He loved trying to guess what would happen next!
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  Bethel Swift

  I grew up watching Shining Time Station and reading original Thomas the Tank Engine stories and found this one to be quite disappointing. I get the Dr Suess rhyme but the actual substance is inaccurate which I think does a disservice to children. Unfortunately, it has great rereadability so if you do purchase it, you'll find yourself explaining that all the people from a train would not be able to fit in a bus and then a helicopter and that a bus would not ask passengers to disembark for a toad in the road (even one drawn so off scale that it is half the size of the bus driver). To be fair, the trains and coaches having personalities is an original theme, but I don't mind that because children can easily recognize that as being fiction, whereas the other two examples I gave are not clearly unrealistic to younger readers.
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  Allison

  Fucking Thomas. What the fuck kind of hail destroys a train track? What the hell kind of toad would cause a whole bus to abandon ship rather than just poke the toad till it moves? And fuck you, freight cars.
  
  Also, pick before you start writing the book whether it's going to rhyme or not, and then pick a meter and stick with it. None of this bullshit back and forth. It's fucking annoying.
  
  I hate Thomas books.
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  FionaHarmon

  Abounding with inaccuracies.
  After the hail storm Thomas finds part of his train track has cracked. "The hail had made a crack right there in the track!"
  unfortunately it seems Thomas succumbed to post hoc ergo propter hoc in his fracture analysis. More likely I think the steel cracked for a non hail related reason because steel is stronger than ice.
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  Amy

  Some surprisingly good rhymes.
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  Michelle

  Listen to the request of a 2 yr old often times for "a cwackin a twack"... and it becomes exceptional.
  Good memory.
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  Christopher Lutz

  Someone who wasn’t familiar with the series must have wrote this. Had a Dr Seuss feel to it which was strange
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  Jeffrey Hite

  The best thing I can say about this book is that it is rather short. Thomas the Tank Engine has never been high reading, but it seems to me that since the Thomas Movie the books have gone down hill. This is a good example of that.
  
  My younger kids like the book because it is Thomas, but the older kids groan at even having to hear it while I read it to the younger ones, and shout suggestions at the book from across the room, like how did hail break a huge metal track? Or Why not drive around the toad. And If they are in a gross mood, just run the stinking toad over. My Favorite thought on this is do you know how much money they lost between stopping all rail traffic on this line, loosing customers and then flying the ones that stuck around in a helicopter to their destination.
  
  But, it is a kids book so. The sign songy rhyming is not too over the top, though I think it could have been done better. The premise of the book is rather improbably, but we are talking about a world where train engines can talk. If you have read all the Thomas books a 100 times and you are looking for one that your younger kids will like you could do worse than this one.
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  Jack

  My book is from the Cat in the Hat Beginner Books division of Random House. Fans of Thomas & Friends will enjoy
  A Crack in the Track as another chapter in the long running series. It is a good early reader and the many children that love this series will be motivated to master the story themselves.
  Age Range: 3 and up
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  Felicity The Magnificent

  In this book Henry the engine had a boiler ache. The hail fell down. Sometimes it's strong and it breaks the track. The driver was sitting inside. Thomas stopped. The other trains had to push Thomas on his back. Gordon was standing behind Henry, and James was standing behind Gordon. I liked this book. This is a long book.
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  Shawn Fairweather

  My son rec'd a four pack of Thomas books for Xmas with this being one of them. All four books are of typical Thomas fashion using vivid colors, inclusion of many Thomas's friends, and age appropriate storylines that my son highly enjoys. Any book that Parker picks up and hands me to read him gets a thumbs up from me, these books get read much more than others!
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  Taylor Troncin

  This book was read for Wesley’s summer reading club. Wesley is my (soon to be five year old) son. This review is what we used for his reading club.
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  Wesley loves Thomas!! Wesley ended up having almost everyone read this story to him multiple times!
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  Kaitlyn (ktxx22) Walker

  2020: Cute little board book! Really enjoyed the rhyming bits! I wish there had been more of them.
  
  2023: update I read to my kids tonight and there’s some questionable things in this book that go against what’s possible and yeah I docked it a star for ridiculousness
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  Flora

  Peppo bought this for me. It not only has all the train guys, but it also has Harold the helicopter and Bertie the bus, too. I've heard it five times today and it's just after noon.
  
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  Gennie Hendrick

  This book will peek the children's interest because of the characters in the story. This book has rhyming words that would be good for children to be able to identify.
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  Theresa

  my son was a thomas the tank engine fan bought all the books we could to help him learn to read....
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  Cindy DeLong

  My family loves this book. We read it often in their early elementary school years and I still have parts of it memorized all these years later.
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  Desi A

  For awhile I regretted picking this up used. The story is fine, but it can't make up its mind whether its rhyming or not.
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  Sarah

  Fun rhymes make this better than your average Thomas story
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  Ashley Trueblood

  My son is a Thomas enthusiast and loves this
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  Bree

  Notes:
  repetitive drivel for little ones.
  so many great books for toddlers; this one's boring.