I love that each page only has a few words so we can flip through the pages quickly and still get the whole story. My 3 year old son and one year old daughter fight over this one because it is so fun to carry around and play with the scalloped edges. The 3 year old calls it his Thomas Chunky book. We actually had a copy of it and I accidentally washed it with the my sons bedsheets (he loved to sleep with it.) I hoped that he would be satisfied with a different new Thomas book, but he never forgot about it so we were delighted to find a copy on Amazon.