title: May the Best Engine Win (Thomas & Friends)
author: Golden Books
description: In 1942, the launch of<b>Little Golden Books</b>revolutionized childrens book publishing by making high-quality picture books available at affordable prices. More than 60 years later, many of the original Golden Book titles are still wildly popular, with <i>The Poky Little Puppy</i> topping the list of ten bestselling childrens books of all time.Golden Books backlist is teeming with classics such as Dorothy Kunhardts<i> Pat the Bunny</i>, and features the stories and artwork of childrens book legends Mary Blair, Margaret Wise Brown, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkins, Garth Williams, and many more.Today, the Golden Books imprint includes an array of storybooks, novelty books, and coloring and activity books featuring all of the most popular licenses, including Disney, Nickelodeon, Barbie, Thomas &amp; Friends, The Cat in the Hat, Sesame Street, Marvel Super Heroes, and DC Super Friends. Golden Bookscontinues to reissue the best of its backlist in a variety of formats, including ebooks and apps, as well as bringing out brand-new books in these evolving new formats.<br /><br /><b>Richard Courtney</b>is a published illustrator known for his colorful work in the childrens book seriesThomas &amp; Friends.
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  Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends™
  
  
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  Based on The Railway Series by The Reverend W Awdry. © 2011 Gullane (Thomas)
  LLC. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and Thomas & Friends are trademarks of
  Gullane (Thomas) Limited. HIT and the HIT Entertainment logo are trademarks of
  HIT Entertainment Limited. All rights reserved. Published in the United States
  by Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of
  Random House, Inc., 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, and in Canada by Random
  House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Golden Books in
  slightly different form in 2010. Golden Books, A Golden Book, A Little Golden
  Book, and the G colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  
  
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