Thomas's Present

"I am sure the Fat Controller will get you a new whistle. He knows they are important."

- Edward

Thomas's Present is a magazine story. The second part of this story is titled Thomas's Christmas.

Plot
Early on Christmas Eve, Thomas steams out of his shed to start to work. He sees the vicar cycling by and wants to sound his whistle (which he likes doing), but when his driver tries to blow his whistle, nothing happens and the fireman discovers that the whistle is frozen. They melt the ice using hot water but the ice damages the whistle and it still cannot make a sound. Later that day, the big engines such as Gordon, Henry and James hear about Thomas' whistle and they all laugh at him. But Edward cheers Thomas up by saying that the Fat Controller will surely give him a new whistle.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * The Fat Controller
 * The Vicar of Wellsworth

Goofs

 * Henry's whistle was not coloured yellow in the eighth illustration.
 * When Henry says "You have always been a noisy little engine, Thomas.", always is misspelled as "Alwasy".
 * Gordon was out of proportion in the ninth illustration.
 * In the last illustration:
 * Thomas' upper lip is not coloured.
 * Edward's smokebox is grey and his cab roof is white.